From: John Walker <walkerj@SW-ENG.FALLS-CHURCH.VA.US>
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/17
Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199610171357.NAA13045@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> (raw)
On Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:04:44 -0400,
Robert Dewar <dewar@MERV.CS.NYU.EDU> wrote:
>Well I must say that at first it seemed quite credible that this was indeed
>an old term, but the failure of anyone to come up with other than the most
>dubious scraps of anecdotal evidence is puzzling ...
Don't nobody got no symbol dictionaries? :)
*Moi*'s memory leans vaguely to the (#=pound)=old side, but I wonder
whether the usage was blue-collar: stock clerks rather than
bookkeepers. One tilt in the (#=pound)=new direction is that the 1909
Webster's shows # as only the number sign. Class bias? :)
But c'mon, somebody gotta got a symbol dictionary!
take care,
John
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1996-10-17 0:00 John Walker [this message]
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1996-10-17 0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Andrew Lynch
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-27 0:00 ` @@ robin
1996-10-02 0:00 help: character to integer Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-02 0:00 ` George Haddad
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-07 0:00 ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) Adam Beneschan
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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