From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f8e7dc94a16acddc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" Date: 1996/10/22 Message-ID: <9610221828.AA11091@most>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 191432694 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: :> Well, this is off-topic, inconclusive, and worsens the SNR, but... :> I found a skewed "pound" symbol in an old dictionary, in the symbols :> section, under the "Correction of the Press" section (page 1868): :> "A space, or more space between words, letters, or lines" :> This is from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary published in 1886. I was once employed in technical writing and publishing, and used it this way in editing (marking up) copy. I still use it that way. (I would have emailed you but my newsreader garbled your address, so what's a few more spikes in the SNR?) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) Office: 219-429-4923 Hughes Defense Communications (MS 10-40) Home: 219-471-7206 Fort Wayne, IN 46808 (Unix): wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------