Useful Fact You Don’t Know
4 comments March 15th, 2007at 05:42pm Posted by Eli
The pound symbol (#) is also known as the octothorpe.
No point here – I just like saying “octothorpe.”
Entry Filed under: Uncategorized
4 comments March 15th, 2007at 05:42pm Posted by Eli
The pound symbol (#) is also known as the octothorpe.
No point here – I just like saying “octothorpe.”
Entry Filed under: Uncategorized
M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
« Feb | Apr » | |||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
*
4 Comments
1. PoliShifter | March 15th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Octothorpe, Octo – 8 there are 8 points, thorpe, old english for hamlet or village.
So I suppose that octothorpe could refer to an 8 pointed village in the sense that when you look at the # sign you see the 8 points with the square in the middle representing the thorpe…
2. Eli | March 15th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
According to the Wiktionary, it was just coined by a Jim Thorpe fan…
3. Interrobang | March 16th, 2007 at 2:44 am
I actually knew that. :) But I know all kinds of weird words, like “boustrophedonically” and “shibboleth.” (Try explaining the English meaning of that one to a Hebrew speaker sometime, just for shits and giggles.)
4. ellroon | March 16th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
I found the lovely word embranglement when cruising through the dictionary once. Still waiting to use it….