-----Subject: Re: Thick question/Petit Escargot
>In article <[log in to unmask]>, dated Thu, 10 Sep
>1998 at 09:14:56, Phil Dunlap <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>There seems to be an 'English vs. American' problem here... What y'all
>>call the hash sign (#) is referred to here as the pound sign - not just
>>by programmers but in common usage as a symbol for the pound unit of
>>weight.
And how about the old @ sign?
Is it a commerical "AT", an ampersand or, as the Independent Newspapers Poll
to find a new name for @ suggested a " petit escargot?
martin allen
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