Help needed from British members

[Thornir Alekeg]

I am working on a paper for a class I am taking and came across something I could use a bit of help with. What do you call the # sign on your telephone? Here in the US we call it the "pound key." From what I heard, it is called something different in England, but I could not find what it is called. If you called a phone number and were told to enter some information, then press the pound key, would you understand that they are requesting the key marked "#"?

Thanks.

 

[reveal]

I am working on a paper for a class I am taking and came across something I could use a bit of help with. What do you call the # sign on your telephone? Here in the US we call it the "pound key." From what I heard, it is called something different in England, but I could not find what it is called. If you called a phone number and were told to enter some information, then press the pound key, would you understand that they are requesting the key marked "#"?

Thanks.

I'm not from England, but I've heard it referred to as the "hatch" mark or "hash" mark.

Edit: Did a google for "hash mark" and found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

# hash / hash mark / hash sign

* the most common name outside the US, including in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
* Used in the UK and Australia on touch-tone telephones – "Please press the hash key"
* In the UK the symbol is often used as medical shorthand for 'fracture'

 

[nerfherder]

Yeah, we call it the hash key. A pound looks like this £

Cheers,
Liam

 

[PieAndDragon]

Hash key, or possibly octothorpe if you're a coldfusion programmer.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I knew there was no way it would be a pound sign because of the British Pound. Now that you told me it was the hash mark, it all came back to me. Many thanks.

 

[diaglo]

they call it the hash key.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

they call it the hash key.

Is the key brown? If it is then we can call it the hashbrown key!

 

[Morrus]

Yep, the hash key (as everyone has already said!) In fact, I've just learned something, because I had no idea that in the US it wasn't called that!

 

[Quasqueton]

Help needed from British members

Now read this in an Austin Powers mindset.

Quasqueton

 

[Psionicist]

Me and my friends have called it "blue mark" (bruise) since we played a NES/Nintendo game about 10 years ago. I had no idea it was also called pound. Heh.