Is it normal i just realized # is the pound sign so now..
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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Is it normal I just realized # is the pound sign so now every time I see #MeToo it has a completely different meaning?
I've not heard it called the pound sign anywhere out of the US.
£ is pound sign. Y'know. For GBP.
You've never heard "Press pound for more options?"
Also, # is pound as in how much something weighs.
£ is pound as in British currency.
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.
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
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".
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.
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.