Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihuxb!wfmans From: wfmans@ihuxb.UUCP (w. mansfield) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: question about names for symbols Message-ID: <1086@ihuxb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 14:58:16 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxb.1086 Posted: Wed Jul 3 14:58:16 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 05:35:39 EDT References: <2041@iddic.UUCP> <7333@watdaisy.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 4 I don't know about the rest of you, but my first exposure to # was in music, leading to an ongoing desire to call it "sharp". So that people here understand me, I call it "pound". By the way, if ' is a quote, why is ` an accent?