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I wish, just British.
£ is The Pound to British people, so telling people to press pound for
#
when you mean hash would be deeply confusing.It would be like deciding
§
is now the called the Euro and then telling countries that use € they are weird/young.Speak for yourself please, I wouldn't find it deeply confusing.
now I'm wondering why us Americans decided to start calling # a pound sign, when the original name was octothorpe
time to get lost in Wikipedia
here are some snippets:
I had no idea that
#
was going to cause so much controversy. I will say that pound is much more efficient than octothorpe.It doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Woah, octothorpe is so much cooler.