The latest discovery in my learnings, this symbol " # " is actually called an Octothorpe.

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Banele

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coolq

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Really?
How do you pronounce it?
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calmyourtities

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p o u n d 👊
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calmyourtities

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*also called an octothorpe
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gitpush

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No that's hashtag 😒
Or sharp (as a C#) 😛
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coolq

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@Jilano
So "Octo Thor P"?
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Andi

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@gitpush My teacher kills me everytime I say hashtag. My teacher:"It's not a stupid facebook tag it's a HASH that's it. It always was and always will be a hash! JUST hash!"
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gitpush

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@Andi hahaha he has a point whenever I hear hashtag I think of stupid social media posts lol
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Banele

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I actually learnt this last night when I was learning about stying an ID'ed element in HTML using CSS. Somehow I deviated and I ended up finding the origin of this symbol
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dprimax

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in Indonesia we call it "pagar" pronounce as "phaghar" and actually in english means "fence" because this -> # shaped like fence 😅 #######
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Electrux

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@dprimax that’s deep 🤔😎

I’ll keep calling it hash...
Or if I wanna sound intelligent, octothorpe 😂😂😎😎
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FlexibleCoder63

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In INTERCAL, it's called "mesh".
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Hammster

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In German we call it "Rautesymbol" (Rhombus) or "Doppelkreuz" (Double-Cross) this can get quit confusing if you have a old PC where there is a rhombus and octothorp on the numpad it is used for getting the subtotal.
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rjedlin

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@calmyourtities The pound name comes from the symbol being used to denote a measure was in pounds. 30#, 30lbs., and 30 pounds are all equal in meaning.
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calmyourtities

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@rjedlin also I will # you
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bittersweet

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Yeah I know this from the Coctothorpe and Foctothorpe languages, from octotags on Twitter, and md5-octothorping. When I was younger I also baked a lot of octothorpebrownies.
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alcamore

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Calling # by itself never made sense to me. A hash tag is a hash and a tag. #tag.

In other news, found out that \ is called a 'reverse solidus'.
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discosama

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I'm going to be pedantic now and correct everyone when the say # is a hash tag. Yes I'm a loser. Thanks for this
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Banele

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@bittersweet you are quickly becoming my favourite ...... hahahahaha :-D ..... that sh*t is funny man...

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The latest discovery in my learnings, this symbol " # " is actually called an Octothorpe.

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