Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:48:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> The '#' has a crapload of names: some I know are
[...]
> 4) "octothorpe"; I guess this is the typographical name or something.
> I even used to know _why_, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
In a book I have, it gives '#' a meaning of "Insert a space" (the
context is in revising a text).
octo - eight
thorp - I saw what this part means a while ago. I think it is village
> PS Is there a one character symbol for a shilling? Does anyone other
> than the US use the '?' (cent) character? How the hell do I type a
> euro character? :-)
IIRC, it was '/'.
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