Sorry: "troy" weight is spelt "troy" (rather in the way "spelt" is spelt
"spelt").
R.
On 7/4/17 8:01 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Well . . . as the name "octothorpe" was coined by American telephone
engineers as recently as 1968
that seems extremely dubious . . . and quite where either the "octo"
(=8) or the "thorpe" (='viilage', c.f Doorp, Dorf) get
there is a really odd question.
(part of this maybe because everything has been, ultimately, invented
in Scotland)
It certainly should NOT be called a 'pound' sign, as that is either a
'£' (as derived from Librum) or 'lb' (as in either avoir dupois weight
or try weight.
It should ONLY be called a 'sharp' sign in the context of musical
notation (so the programming language 'C#' . . .).
'Number sign' doesn't sit nicely either as that brings it up against '№'.
Why don't we all AGREE to call it the 'headache' sign?
a.k.a. "cross-patch"
Richmond.
On 7/4/17 7:44 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
On 07/04/2017 12:28 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
'Sharp' because it is used in music to denote sharpening of the base
note (despite my musical background, I still see it as 'hash' in my
mind when I see it though).
'#' is, was, and should be and octothorpe.
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