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From: tonyp@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Tony Pritchard)
Subject: Re: Is '#' a "pound sign" or what?
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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 22:32:43 GMT
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In article <64JP9SSzcsB@khms.westfalen.de>,
Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de> wrote:
> tonyp@actrix.gen.nz (Tony Pritchard)  
> wrote on 03.03.96 in <Dno1rr.Ix7@actrix.gen.nz>:
> 
> > 1) Outside the US, most people call it a hash.
> >    (I for one have never heard it called anything else, even when it is
> >    used to indicate, for instance, 'number' or 'space'.)
> 
> Originally, this was known as "not all the world is [like] the US"  
> disease; this "not all the world is [like] NZ" seems to be a recent  
> strain.

Eh? What on earth are you talking about? 
Is NZ the only place in the world where it's called a hash? 
(Hands up everyone!)

Tony Pritchard
