Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]
* 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
Reply to: