Wordy goodness

[wispfox]

Today's word of the day at wordsmith is "octothorpe", which is basically a name for the '#' symbol. I'm fascinated by the number of names for that symbol, though!

from the entry:

"The '#' is also known as a pound sign, crosshatch, number sign, sharp, hash, crunch, mesh, hex, flash, grid, pig-pen, gate, hak, oof, rake, fence, gate, grid, gridlet, square, and widget mark."


Hak! Oof!

Comments

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Hak! Oof!

That is precisely what I said to myself when I read that list.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*grins* Great minds...?

(or at least similarly insane ones. ;)

[multicolours.livejournal.com]

More along the same lines...

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mscrolllock.html (http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mscrolllock.html)

I am such a geek sometimes! Enjoy! :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Weee! I did *not* know what the scroll lock key did. I use sysrq rather often, in linux. Ditto with pause.

backtick is my friend.

I'm amused that he used Lesbian Porn to demonstrate the use of pipe '|'.

Thanks for niftiness!