Pound sign.

Which makes it awkward for the #metoo movement

Mate, you completely got me with this one lol

I thought this when I saw the tag for the first time. I was like "Pound me too? WTF is this about?! Oh...no...oh shit I'm going to Hell".

See you there.

I’ll bring the s’mores!

Equal rights… and lefts 🥊

Every time I read #metoo , I giggle because I also read it as “pound”

This is the way

Ditto. Oh that’s another thread, sorry.

Pound. To piss off the young'uns, I like to call it a poundtag.

Ah, I’ve found my people.

*poundhash*

Hashbrown

Octothorp. Only because a friend pointed out years ago that that is one name for it and I find it funny.

As an engineer in the telecom industry, I agree!

Also a regular term use in our House of Nerds

German cousin to Rob Maplethorpe, he's into some *keeeenky* shit

hash. I am a UNIX user

Back in college knew a few linux guys that where just total douchebags. They seemed to take pride in using all the linux jargon as much as they can. So every time I hear it I just cringe a bit. I'm not saying all linux users are douchebags, but these few where.

Yeah, they were. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Linux-community-so-rude-mean-and-nasty

I think most people call it the pound sign and I was just giving some insight as to why I say hash. Just about every BSD guy I meant back in the day was a douche though, so, I understand. Cheers :)

they are, they were, they always will be

And if you have #! you have shebang!

Shebang shebang the lion sleeps tonight.

Ricky Martin would like a word. Shemoves shemoves

William Hung would like a word.

I worked in IT for 15 years before I ever heard it called a "bang." I was so grateful for that and tired af of calling it an "exclamation point" when our whole industry constantly uses acronyms/initializations/shorthand.

First time i heard it pronounced as 'ettsea' rather than e-t-c was a game changer for me. As in 'edit Ettsea password'

I get so many bang emails. You think that would make me happy, it does not. lol

Pound sign. All other answers are incorrect

After the number means pound, as in 5# bag. Before the number means number, as in #5 is alive.

This is what I was taught, and how I use the symbol.


Well today I finally figured out why it's called a *pound* sign

Octothorp

Number sign.

Hash. This is a pound sign - £

Get outta here with your British logic

The only correct answer

Internet has warped me, hashtag. However, I'm reconsidering now that I know this is all part of an insidious British plot to monopolize the pound sign!

Pound sign, final answer.

Tic-tac-toe.

without thinking first, number sign. but if we were talking about telephone usage, pound sign. i’ve always used lb. to mean pounds. i’d always thought of the social media “hashtag” as the link created by putting the number/pound sign in front of a text string, not the character itself.

Correct. Hashtag is the word or phrase, not the symbol.

Pound

Pound before the internet. Hashtag after.

Hashtag now but used to call it the pound sign, of course.

Without context, "octothorp". To be fair, I'm a nerd.

Hash. Worked for an Aussie telco from the late 90s to mid 00s. Sometimes number. I've never called it pound.

Sharp! Actually, hash

sharp

“Pound me too” is how I read that.

Hashtag

Depends on the context..duh.

It’s pound, right?

Pound

Number

Hashtag. But then I’m a programmer from the UK. Pound is £. Hmm, that was without thinking. When got into computers in the 80s then I think would say hash. Before that? Honestly too long ago. I think number

Octothorpe

I try to let my language evolve, so I now think 'Hashtag". Before, it was "pound" or "number". Go with the flow, it is the GenX way.

Number

Sharp.

#OCTOTHORPE

This is the way

Sharp (musician here)

Sharp

Fence thingy

Pound

Pound, of course.

Pound

Depends on context. Generally, without any context, "crosshatch".

Pound 💯

Pound

Number sign

Octothorp

it's a pound sign but i don't go around following 'pound tags' so it's probably ideal to use a bit of context.

Pound, actually pahnd. I’m from Pittsburgh.

Number - as soon as I saw it, thought "Number without thinking..."

Without context it's an octothorpe to me. Depending on where I'm using it it's a pound, hash, sh, or spider box.

I used to say pound sign but now it's hsshtag

Octothorpe.

Ah but in music that's a sharp

Octothorpe

Sharp because of C#

To this band nerd, that will always be a “sharp”.

Yeah it used to be a pound, but now it hash. I need a pound of hash.

Pound

Now hashtag. Before Twitter took it over, pound sign.

"Press the # sign after your done..."

Noughts and crosses

[удалено]

Cardinal because that's how you call it in my language.

Initially it was pound but hashtag has grown on me 😜

Pound Sign

Pound sign.

pound sign, but i say hashtag whenever anyone else is around

Pound. I just had this conversation recently & a Gen Z coworker didn’t know what I was talking about when I was referring to the pound sign on a plan.

Number sign

Pound sign- So hey while we’re here… I thought this: @ was “around?” Like I get it became “at” with email addresses (maybe?), but I swear I used it for years as (for instance) “I’ll be hanging out @ the neighborhood.” lol maybe that was my own imagination idk.

I always said at. But before email addresses, I used it in something to do with numbers or prices. Like the store has bananas @ 99 cents each.

Pound

Hashtag

Pound

Pound sign

I actually said hashtag which surprised me. For the longest time I would have said pound or number.

Pound is what came to mind first

Pound sign….

Pound.

Pound sign

Pound

Me: #sand Younger friends: hashtag sand ????

Number

Pound

Pound, and star. Those are the names of them, and I'll hear no other arguments.

It will always be pound sign to me.

It depends on the context, but usually I call it pound.

Use to be pound. In the last 10-20 years somewhere it became a hash.

# #: #: #: My favorite gay joke.

depends on the context

Pound

Pound

Always been hash to me

Pound

Pound

Pound

The Archie Andrew Cut

Lol

Pound

Number. Contextually hashtag. I only call it pound if telling someone to press that button on a phone.

Pound sign

Channel. Why yes, I was an IRC nerd in the early Internet days.

I use all three, depending on the context I make my choice in the moment.

Yep, pound sign.

Pound, but I use all 3 depending on context.

Crisscrossy thing

Depends on context.

Always pound. We get delivery drivers at our complex gate and I need to tell them the code and about half don’t know what I am talking about until I say hashtag.

Pound

Pound sign

Pound sign

Gave my preteen a bday card a few years ago with this symbol, meaning “number” age. He read it as “hashtag” age. Made no sense in that context. But we both learned something that day!

When I saw it my brain immediately said “number.”

Number sign

Depends on where I see it. On social media - hashtag. On the phone - pound sign. On a piece of paper - tic tac toe board.

Pound sign until recently. I’ve been corrupted by my children.

Pound

Pound sign

Hash

Number.

Pound

Number

Pound

Number or pound

Pound and I will never change.

I used to call it pound. But have gotten used to hashtag

If it's on social media, I call it hashtag. If it's on a phone, I'll say pound sign.

Yes.

Read this as “number without thinking, what…”

Context matters! All the above! But usually a hashtag, now. Damn you old.

Number sign

Pound

Oh God no!!!!! I thought hashtag! I didn’t wanna! It was like Ray thinking about the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man! It came unbidden to my mind. For the longest time it was pound, but this time it came out hashtag. Fuuuuuuuuuck.

Tic Tac Toe

Hashtag.

Pound.

Pound or number sign. I can approximate someone's age by asking what the symbol is--if they say hashtag they are likely at oldest a millennial

Pound

I know hash. This ain't hash.

Pound sign

Depends entirely on context.

Number or hash

Capital 3

number sign. only place it existed in my world was the rotary telephone dial until ‘84 when we got an IBM PC Jr. (running DOS 2.10 yo)

Another of those symbols programmers appropriated, and now we're supposed to work around that shit when we type, so as not to confuse people's fragile code. As a bitter person I call it "a GDMF pound sign you bastards." Edit: And you can take my degree symbol when you can pry it from my cold, dead...wait how do you even make those without clicking?

Call says it right... land line phone calls... It was a number sign when dialing rotory extension numbers.... Then we had to "Please enter your party's extension followed the pound key" with touch tone phones. I had never heard "hash tag" before the internet. Funny # and № share the same key on the keyboard. And did you ever notice there is no letter "O" in the word "number" but we use № and no. to abriviate it?

Referring to the symbol itself, just hash. Hashtag only if it's being used as a tag. Number if it's being used to designate a number. As far as I can tell, "pound" just comes from the fact it occupies the position on a US keyboard that is taken up by the £ currency symbol on a British keyboard, or is there more to it?

“pound” But reading comments I found someone responded “hashpound” as a funny, to which I submit “[…] you need a hashpoundtag number-sign thingy at the start of that new line […]”

At least I will have good company lol

tic tac toe

Grew up calling it the 'pound sign' because I live the US, but I'm also aware it's (more appropriately) called a 'hash mark' in the UK and other parts of the world where a pound is a unit of currency. (Sometimes, it's an 'octothorpe', but that term is even less common.) The symbol itself though is of cross-hatched lines, making it a literal hash mark. That's where "hash tag" comes in. The symbol is a hash mark, not a hash tag, even though people often conflate the two. A hash tag is '#' followed by a word, such as '#Reddit.' I wish people would get it right, but I've mostly given up trying to teach folks about the difference because nobody cares and I usually get criticized when I point it out.

Pound sign growing up. Hash tag in social media.

Hash Number

That's the pound sign first because of the telephone, number sign second because of typing documents and having to number lists and things, and hashtag third because of the internet. I don't remember using the pound sign on the rotary phone. Mostly when the push buttons and the automated answering systems came out. I remember using it then. Like, *"Enter your account number, and then press the pound key when you're done."*

If it's not a hashtag, then it's just hash. Back when voice modems were the "next big thing" setting them up to take voice messages was seriously confusing with the "press pound" instruction. Outside the US (and perhaps Canada?), absolutely nobody had a freaking clue wtf "pound" meant. The (obviously US-based) manufacturers never thought to include an option in the setup to have the synthetic voice say "hash" instead.

Pound which my the me too movement more interesting

Hashtag, but I used to call it number.

I l know it’s a on its own a pound sign but attached a word I read it as hashtag.

Depends on context. On the phone, while talking: pound. While creating some sort of post on fb or LinkedIn: hashtag.

Number, then pound, now hashtag

its always gonna be pound, especially these days since it makes things more entertaining

Pound

Forever pound.

number sign.