Alain yscrifef:
> ITU/T also calls it "octothorpe"... I once looked in my complete edition of
> the OED and I never found it.
The term was invented at Bell Labs. "Tthorpe" refers to the points of
object; hence "quadrithorpe" for "=" and "bithorpe" for "-".
U+2736 is presumably a "hexithorpe" ("hexathorpe"?).
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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