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- From: mc/G=James/S=Arconati/OU=0105390@mhs.attmail.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Pounding on an Octothorp
- Message-ID: <telecom12.640.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 14:44:56 GMT
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- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 640, Message 7 of 8
-
- In Telecomm Digest V12 #632, Spencer talks about the pronounciation of
- the # symbol used on DTMF pads.
-
- When I worked for Mother, some 'official' publications said that it
- was called an "octothorp."
-
- Seems to me that "pound sign" is readily understood by most North
- Americans.
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: We covered this in excruciating detail in a special
- edition of the TELECOM Digest back in 1989. "Octothorpe" (with an \e\
- on the end) seems to be the designated name. In another message in
- this issue, a reader asks if pounding off at the end of certain
- dialing sequences is a normal, acceptable thing to do. PAT]
-