From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com) Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 12:40:04 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] MS-DOS In-Reply-To: References: <1467418363.24560.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: <9dd14d6fe62f90cc56471cc42598de4c.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> > On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Norman Wilson wrote: > >> I suspect Yanks being pedantic about `slash' versus `forward slash' >> would give an Englishman a stroke. >> >> If that's too oblique for some of you, I can't help. >> >> Norman Wilson >> Toronto ON >> > > I think the proper term is "Virgule" anyway. ;) > > -uso. > AT&T's original term for the 12th key on your phone was 'Octothorpe'. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octothorpe It pretty quickly became 'pound', but for anybody under the age of 35 it's now 'hashtag' (much to the dismay of music teachers...)