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Subject:Technical name for the #? From:Annie Drynan <Annie_Drynan -at- SILVERPLATTER -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:21:07 +0000
Thought I'd just mention another option, from the UK.
When I ring my answer phone to check messages while I am away from home,
the voice tells me to enter my security code "and press square". I've
*never* seen it called square anywhere else. Has anyone else?
And for a long time I thought that in England we called the symbol "hash"
because that was what it was called in the USA... Seems not.
