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

It's called an ampersand.

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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Originally Posted by Dinakie

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

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I BELIEVE IT IS CALLED AN AMPERSAND.

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Originally Posted by ScottGem

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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Members of my family tend to refer to the one on the phone keypad as "the tic-tac-toe button". :D:D:D

I have always called the # symbol the "pound sign" or the "number sign".

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Originally Posted by unclejohnny

I have always called the # symbol the "pound sign" or the "number sign".

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Most people do. But it does have an official name and that's octothorpe.

Years ago when I took Centrex training, the guy from the telephone company called it an octasharp.

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Originally Posted by labman

Years ago when I took Centrex training, the guy from the telephone company called it an octasharp.

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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