From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM>
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign"
Date: 1996/10/22
Date: 1996-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9610221832.AA11240@most> (raw)
:> 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.
You did not say whether this 1886 did or did not mention it as
meaning "pounds" (weight).
(The Useniks #-ed the subject to death.)
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