Am I in trouble?!


Question:

Am I in trouble?

The phone company just called and ask me to turn in my OCTOTHORPE.


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lmao! like i said before I love your questions!!!! I have to be honest i have not heard this word before... however as i have said i loooove new words so i had to go and serch for this one.


Octothorpe is just one of a plethora of names for the symbol. In the US it’s often called the pound key, because it has long been used to mark numbers related to weight, or for similar reasons the number sign, which is also one of its internationally agreed names. Elsewhere it is commonly called hash, a term dating from the 1970s that may have been a popular misunderstanding of hatch. Many humorous or slangy terms have also been recorded, none of them with wide circulation: tic-tac-toe, gate, crunch, and many others. In 1989, one of the international standards bodies settled on square as the official name, seemingly on the grounds that most languages had an equivalent in its vocabulary, so it could be easily translated. As a result, the British Post Office, then responsible for telecommunications, settled on square and it is still used publicly by its successor organisation, British Telecom (BT).


AWESOME WORD LOVE IT!


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