* Pigeon [Wed, 29/01/2003 at 18:22 +0000] > > British phones had a # key on the keypad for several years before the > exchanges were upgraded to the point where you could actually do > anything with it. When this happened, the recorded help/instruction > messages were at something of a loss as to what to call it. "The key > you've been ignoring for the last 10 years" was no good, because that > applied to * as well. They settled on "square" for a while, which I > think is unquestionably the most revolting term I've heard for this > symbol. They mostly call it "hash" now.
In France, we call it the "sharp" key (dièse in French), coz the sign is also used in musical notation (internationally I think). -- Jean-Marc Chaton, Infra Team, IBM Paris Lab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]