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From: rwhw@5941ux.UUCP
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Subject: a # is a sharp? .... octothorpe defined (almost)
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Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 09:54:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  9 09:54:53 1983
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 "thorp" 

thorp n. Archaic. A hamlet; village; now chiefly in names of placres. Also
thorpe. [OE. Akin to dorp.]

Octothorpe?............eight hamlets........eight sided village? HA HA.

I thought an # is a sharp.

                                   Roy.......hound!rwhw