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Dinakie
Feb 9, 2006, 06:37 AM
What is the name of this symbol "&" does anybody know?
NeedKarma
Feb 9, 2006, 06:42 AM
It's called an ampersand.
ScottGem
Feb 9, 2006, 07:31 AM
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?
SYLVIA W
Feb 19, 2006, 06:37 AM
What is the name of this symbol "&" does anybody know?!
I BELIEVE IT IS CALLED AN AMPERSAND.
PalmMP3
Feb 23, 2006, 04:52 PM
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". :D:D:D
unclejohnny
Mar 1, 2006, 01:52 PM
I have always called the # symbol the "pound sign" or the "number sign".
ScottGem
Mar 1, 2006, 01:57 PM
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.
labman
Mar 1, 2006, 04:50 PM
Years ago when I took Centrex training, the guy from the telephone company called it an octasharp.
ScottGem
Mar 1, 2006, 05:21 PM
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-archives/archives/history/octothorpe.the.real.story