<div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/28 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ablainey@aol.com">ablainey@aol.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">What is it with people using # (Hash) and saying pound? There is a perfectly good £ (pound) sign on the keyboard.<br></font></font></div></font></blockquote><div>
<br>Not on my keyboard there isn't, and not on most keyboards I've seen. (I'm in Silicon<br>Valley, so I suspect this isn't just due to local specialized keyboards.)<br><br>Also, # is used for "pound" in the weight (as opposed to monetary) sense.<br>
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