Easy…neither!!! If you’re English of course!!!
Originally posted by dominique
Electronic phone systems always refer to the # as the pound.
I’ve heard this too, but here it is always called the hash, as in:
“Please enter your security code, followed by the hash key”.
I’ve heard that the Americans also have a name for the * key on a phone, like the MUTE or SCORE key or something? I have no idea.
I’ve always referred to the * as an asterisk key and the # as the pound key.
A pound sign:
£££
£ £
£
££££
£
£ £
££££££
I keep hearing ‘sharp’ more and more for the # key, possibly because Microsoft calls C-Sharp its new language C#.
I personally always called it the “number sign” because that’s how we always refered to it in elementary school!
in musical notation # is used to indicate sharp notes
Yes, the hash is similar to the sharp sign in music. This isn’t to say that music uses a hash to denote sharp, though.
I always used to call # a “hash” until I started hanging round with Unixers. Who’s heard of “pound bang”?
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
And all the telephone services I’ve used refer to * as the “star key”. Now that’s imaginative 