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From: wfmans@ihuxb.UUCP (w. mansfield)
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Subject: Re: question about names for symbols
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 14:58:16 EDT
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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?