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From: Jack Thro <jackthro@big.or.jp>
Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
Date: 1998/01/15
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I had heard of the "#" mark being called the "pound sign," "number
sign," and occasionally "octothorpe" in the USA.  But the Japanese
engineers that I work with, both in Osaka and Tokyo, refer to it as the
"sharp (pronounced 'shaapu')."  It took a couple times for me to
recognize it as a musical term, opposite of "flat (pronounced
'furaato')."

Punctuationally yours,

Jack Thro