From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/18
Date: 1996-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.845692408@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9610171618.AA08190@most
Wes said
"I predict that if someone with a better newsreader than I :-) were to put
this question on alt.english.usage the result would be
a hundred dubious scraps of anecdotal evidence, two hundred useless
opinions, and at least ten conclusive quotes from hundred-year-old
dictionaries."
Well I would settle for just one conclusive quote. I have lots of
reference materials including several ancient dictionaries, but I have
not yet tracked down anything conclusive.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-17 0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-10-21 0:00 ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: char David Kristola
1996-10-18 0:00 ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
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1996-10-17 0:00 John Walker
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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