At 14:40 17/10/2018 -0500, David Wright wrote:
The # wiki notes that British Telecom used the term "square" for
hash at one time.
Surely not? Rather, they presumably used the term "square" for square
- which is what was on the spare key on early designs of keyboard now
occupied by the hash character. See
http://www.britishtelephones.com/t94xx.htm .
I guess this was before the British public had an unambiguous name
for it, "pound" being verboten, ...
Indeed: "pound" would have been as silly as "dollar" or "yen" or whatever.
... "number" rare, ...
UK usage is "No.", of course.
... and "hash" not quite proper in polite society.
Really? Always appropriate in my company!
Brian Barker
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