Viv Kitson wrote
> It's the same with these references to the "hash" key, which I also find
> terribly irritating. It's a bloody "hatch" key! (And just to protect
myself
> after writing this, I have consulted the concise Oxford: defn. 3 for the
> word includes reference to "two crossing sets of parallel lines".)
Try the complete Oxford Viv:
"hash sign [cf. hash-mark: prob. ult. f. hatch v.2, altered by popular
etymology], the symbol #, esp. used before a numeral (as in N. Amer.) to
indicate a following number; the 'number sign';"
Also your metric system seems to be ten times more sensible than ours:
> Most of the world now uses the eminently sensible metric system. Why does
> the US persist in sticking with the cumbersome and impractical Empirial
> (sp?) measures? I
> mean, 16 oz to the lb and 12" to the foot versus 1,000 grams to the kilo
and
> 1,000 cms to the metre - there's no contest! Ergo, there were some
sensible
> people among those French revolutionaries
We only have 100 cm to our puny metres
best wishes
Randolph Healy
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