[DevonDreams]

why can't it be both

[LoKoPaNdA]

Originally posted by Guernica

guys by 'pound' they mean this symbol on house phones



you typically use it when you're using an automated system for something, for example when I'm calling in medication and they ask for the ID number followed by the pound sign to signal that I've finished putting the number in

The people confused are British. For them pound is their currency so they think of that E looking sign they used for it hence the confusion in this thread

[Thisisit]

Dead that's a hash not a hashtag, it becomes a hashtag once you put a word (or "tag) after it

[novembers17th]

Neither, it's a sharp

[Clueless]

Pound.

it's only a hashtag when words are attatched to it

[Ronaldista]

Originally posted by Hobbes

It's hash. The pound sign is £.

[J a y]

Originally posted by Thisisit

Dead that's a hash not a hashtag, it becomes a hashtag once you put a word (or "tag) after it

Would the population of North America lie about language?

[Oxygen]

Originally posted by Guernica

guys by 'pound' they mean this symbol on house phones



you typically use it when you're using an automated system for something, for example when I'm calling in medication and they ask for the ID number followed by the pound sign to signal that I've finished putting the number in

I've never heard it being called pound

In Australia its called the 'hash' key