What do you call this symbol, #?

yo'ma

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 7:34 am

Yesterday I went out with my dd and we went to starbucks and used their bathroom. To use it, you have to have the code. First my dd used it and then I did, so she told me the code and she said the last thing to press is hashtag. I said, you mean the number sign Smile

? Am I showing my age? Laugh

According to wikipedia it means number, pound, and/or hash.

MiriFr

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 7:36 am

In Israel, it's called "sulam/ sulamit" (ladder). How cute?
I call it number, pound, or hashtag depending on the situation.

Iymnok

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 7:42 am

There is a pound button. The number sign.
The term hashtag only has value in certain social media outlets.

ra_mom

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 7:44 am

I call it the pound key on the phone and the number sign everywhere else.

angelgirl

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 7:45 am

In the UK it’s hash. Hashtag is for social media use.

Rubber Ducky

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 8:19 am

I call it a sharp sign — it's musical notation. I’ve wondered why keyboards don’t have a flat sign.

As far as your poll choices go, it depends on the context.

yo'ma

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 8:22 am

The poll is what wikipedia listed. If you have something else, write that separately. As far as it being called hash and not hashtag, it does not mean people don't call it as such.

LovesHashem

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 8:34 am

MiriFr wrote:

In Israel, it's called "sulam/ sulamit" (ladder). How cute?
I call it number, pound, or hashtag depending on the situation.

You don't want to know how many years I was sure it was called shulamit.
LOL

EDIT: I learned a while ago it was sulamit but never thought about why.
Thanks for sharing the shoresh. I don't know why I didn't get that myself lol.

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LovesHashem

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 8:36 am

I believe it was always called pound or a hash. Social media invented the use of tags with the key and so it became known as hashtag. Most young people use it more as a hashtag than as a hash or pound symbol so I am not surprised your DD called it a hashtag.

I call it a pound symbol or a hashtag, depending on the context.
If it's on a phone or code pad it's pound.
If it's using it on social media to tag someone or something - hashtag.

Didn't fill out the poll since there's no option for me.

Einikel

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 10:34 am

LovesHashem wrote:

I call it a pound symbol or a hashtag, depending on the context.
If it's on a phone or code pad it's pound.
If it's using it on social media to tag someone or something - hashtag.

Didn't fill out the poll since there's no option for me.

Same

nchr

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 1:26 pm

pound or hash.

hashtag is when you use a hash sign to tag something.

Kiwi13

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 1:34 pm

It depends on context:

#1 = number 1
67248# = enter code, then pound (in a phone prompt)
#context = hashtag context (social media)

singleagain

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 5:46 pm

I almost always say hashtag. But I use pound or number when I'm feeling quirky

Also this is reminding me of a scene in "Olympus Has Fallen" where the guy is trying to key in a code to stop the disaster and they are telling him "hashtag" and he doesn't get it so someone tells him "shift 3"

singleagain

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 5:49 pm

I find the scene .... Note, this is from an action-thriller R-rated movie and the scene has an f-bomb

OutATowner

Fri, Jul 05 2019, 5:49 pm

Pound sign. The number sign isn't slanted, I think. If someone says hashtag I'll know what they are talking about (recently), but I would never call it that.

Metukah

Sat, Jul 06 2019, 9:06 pm

yo'ma wrote:

The poll is what wikipedia listed. If you have something else, write that separately. As far as it being called hash and not hashtag, it does not mean people don't call it as such.

Your poll should have listed hash and hash tag separately.

Hash is the word used in the UK to describe this symbol. Hashtag is a social media word.

I've always used 'hash', Hashtag has only been around for a few years AFAIK.

imasinger

Sat, Jul 06 2019, 10:19 pm

In my head, I call it a sharp.

IRL, I say pound sign, because that's how it's referred to on my phone.

watergirl

Sat, Jul 06 2019, 10:45 pm

We called it “the tic tac tow thingie” growing up.

singleagain

Sat, Jul 06 2019, 10:56 pm

watergirl wrote:

We called it “the tic tac tow thingie” growing up.

Omg.. that reminds me of a very funny show called "the other just Choen" there's an answering machine and that's part of the message
He says something like "...press the pound key. The pound key is the number sign or the tic tac toe thingie located in the button right of you're telephone keypad. If you don't have a touch tone phone..."