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Remember the Octothorpe
Maybe you call it a pound sign (US) or a hash (UK) or a sharp (music), but the real name of the # symbol on your phone is the octothorpe. Octo, because it has eight legs and thorpe because… well, no one really knows why. I prefer the “eight-fronted field” explanation, personally, because it also explains the name Orangethorpe.
