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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <DevNull@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
Date: 1998/01/13
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In article <69gh0s$d9l$1@wolfman.xtra.co.nz>, Paul Wilkins
<pwilkins@synapse.net.nz> writes
>Kathy wrote
>>Incidentally, EVERYONE I know refers to # as "pound sign".  

Everyone YOU know in AMERICA may say this, because of the usage:

  edition #27    _number_ 27  //   12# of sugar   12 _pounds_

but it is very confusing internationally because....
>
>But isn't the pound sign that weird looking symbol the English use for
>denoting money? Just how we use $ as a dollar sign?

English have two things called "pounds".  Both are orignally
the Latin word "Librae".

  12 Lbs of sugar  is 12 pounds [Librae] in weight

  �25.00 (*) is 25 pounds [Librae] in money, originally pounds of Silver

(*)If it doesn't come out on your system, there is supposed
to be a character resembling an ornate L before the 25,
like the ascii drawing below:

    _
   : '
   |-
   /__

-- 
  
 ('U~~]  ('U~~]    ('V~~}-.  ('v~}.     ('u~]    ('u~}.    art after
 J H~~H` J H~~H` ._/ H~'H    j l~l      j |~|`   ! |~|     d.n.maltz

 if you make it idiot proof, someone will just produce a better idiot....