Is it normal i just realized # is the pound sign so now..

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Is it normal I just realized # is the pound sign so now every time I see #MeToo it has a completely different meaning?

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  • mauzi
    4 years ago | pl

    Old and unoriginal joke

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    • charli.m
      4 years ago | pl

      I've not heard it called the pound sign anywhere out of the US.

      £ is pound sign. Y'know. For GBP.

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      • JustAHuman
        4 years ago | pl

        You've never heard "Press pound for more options?"

        Also, # is pound as in how much something weighs.
        £ is pound as in British currency.

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        • charli.m
          4 years ago | pl

          No, not having grown up in America, i didn't until last year. As I already said, it's different here.

          I don't know which way the rest of the world does it.

          Never heard of # for weight measurement, didn't think/realise it had a symbol other than lb.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

          I always thought "number sign" was what kids called up and "hash" was for the grown ups. Haha. 

          Seems to indicate it's just a US thing. Though to be fair, I didn't read about Canada but that prob falls under most commonwealth countries would likely use UK usage. And it doesn't mention like...the rest if the damn world. Hah.

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      • mauzi
        4 years ago | pl

        Hah. even here I feel like it hasn’t really been called the pound sign since like the 90s.
        I’m super dumb and only a few years ago realized that £ was the gb pound sign and not just another way of writing the E for the euro sign..oops

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        • charli.m
          4 years ago | pl

          Aww haha.

          I only know cos it kept telling me to hit the pound key when I was calling up my American phone company. I was so confused. Our automated phone shit says "the hash key".

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          • Anonymous Post Author
            4 years ago | pl

            I found this on Dictionary.com

            "1: The pound sign. This name came to be because the symbol comes from the abbreviation for weight, lb, or libra pondo, literally “pound by weight,” in Latin."

            I hate automated phone systems no matter what they are saying to me.

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            • charli.m
              4 years ago | pl

              They are evil.

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

              I always thought "number sign" was what kids called up and "hash" was for the grown ups. Haha.

              Seems to indicate it's just a US thing. Though to be fair, I didn't read about Canada but that prob falls under most commonwealth countries would likely use UK usage. And it doesn't mention like...the rest if the damn world. Hah.

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    • WeirdGuyFromTheSouth
      4 years ago | pl

      Never heard it

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  • Mrown
    4 years ago | pl

    Never heard of it. (maybe because I'm not American)

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  • IrishPotato
    4 years ago | pl

    Ha.

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  • Ellenna
    4 years ago | pl

    Actually that is not the pound sign

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