Re: Corpora: "hash" (was "at sign")

From: Emanuele Pianta (pianta@itc.it)
Date: Mon Oct 15 2001 - 10:54:48 MET DST

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Harold Somers wrote:
>
> On the subject of names of ligatures and other characters, I have
> noticed that some Americans call the # sign "pound".

> I call it "hash", though I have also heard it called "hatch" which
> would be more (etymo)logical (a hatch being a door made of
> crossbars)

In Italian the sign '#' is called "cancelletto" (little gate) or
"gratella" (little grating or grill)

Emanuele Pianta

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