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Old Feb 9, 2006, 04:37 AM
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what is the name of this symbol "&"
What is the name of this symbol "&" does anybody know?!

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Old Feb 9, 2006, 04:42 AM   #2  
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It's called an ampersand.
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Old Feb 9, 2006, 05:31 AM   #3  
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And now for a bit of trivia. Does anyone know that the official name for this symbol # is not the pound sign but an octothorpe?

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What is the name of this symbol "&" does anybody know?!

I BELIEVE IT IS CALLED AN AMPERSAND.
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And now for a bit of trivia. Does anyone know that the official name for this symbol # is not the pound sign but an octothorpe?
Members of my family tend to refer to the one on the phone keypad as "the tic-tac-toe button".
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I have always called the # symbol the "pound sign" or the "number sign".
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I have always called the # symbol the "pound sign" or the "number sign".
Most people do. But it does have an official name and that's octothorpe.
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Years ago when I took Centrex training, the guy from the telephone company called it an octasharp.
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Years ago when I took Centrex training, the guy from the telephone company called it an octasharp.
He was mangling it. In fact, it was a Bell Labs employee who named it.

http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-ar...the.real.story
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