Wordy goodness
Oct. 8th, 2003 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxToday'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!
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!
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Date: 2003-10-08 09:03 am (UTC)That is precisely what I said to myself when I read that list.
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Date: 2003-10-08 01:25 pm (UTC)http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mscrolllock.html (http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mscrolllock.html)
I am such a geek sometimes! Enjoy! :)
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Date: 2003-10-08 01:59 pm (UTC)(or at least similarly insane ones. ;)
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Date: 2003-10-08 02:04 pm (UTC)backtick is my friend.
I'm amused that he used Lesbian Porn to demonstrate the use of pipe '|'.
Thanks for niftiness!