Pound. But sometimes I call it the "number sign". :0P

I always say "number sign"

I say pound and number, I start with saying pound sign, if they dont know what I mean, I say the number sign, and they get it.

pound +5

For me it's 'Hash'

LOL Icy I call it a "tic,tac,toe" game :O) Wanna play?

I used to work for AT&T, and those of us involved in telecommunications technology called it octothorpe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octothorpe We also called it the pound sign, and that's what I call it now.

depends ... am i referring to the button on the phone, then it's POUND ... am i writing it before a set of digits, then its NUMBER ... for me, hash mark refers to a football field

to me it's hash... Never heard it called a pound before.. maybe because to me a £ is a pound

in spanish we call it el gato.. !!

Pound,always have.

I call it the pound key.

pound

pound ^_^

In actuality, the # symbol originally meant 'number'. How it's meaning got changed to pound I have no idea.

In English, hash. . In my language it's something like "cross(dim.)". I guess that's because it looks like Tic-tac-toe and in my language Tic-tac-toe is called "circle(dim.) and cross(dim.)".

Number

Pound or number depending on how I'm using it.

Hash or number if it is attached to a number. Why pound? Pound is '£'.

This '£' is a pound symbol. I call '#' a hash mark.

Hash

Pond or number, depending on what I am referring to.

Number.

i call it a sharp coz dat what it looks like in a musical sense pound sign is £ lol

Raised in the U.S. with a Mother from England (war bride) I knew # as a hash mark. Forms we filled out used # to indicate an identifying number such as your social security number or part number, then # became number. I got my first cell phone about 6 years ago and the industry calls # a pound sign. Since most of my life was spent with # as number, that is what I call it in my head, even though I recognize it as all three. So my answer is, 'Yes'.

Pound or number.

Pound

When part of a string of alphanumeric characters I call it hash. e.g 1*823f#79@8. Also used as a substitute for the word 'number' e.g. Example #1. I never knew it was used as a symbol for pound, until now. ;)

All of the above.

Pound

If I smoke a pound of hash .... anyway its a symbol representing all three of course

Usually "hash" - i've never used "pound" ever.

Hash. Pound sign in the UK is this one: £.

Pound or number, depending on the context. I've heard it called "hash" but I'm not familiar with that definition.

pound sign.

pound

POUND ON A CELL PHONE AND NUMBER ON A COMPUTER KEYBOARD.

I use that symbol to indicate number.

The symbol stands for all of the above. But I've never said "I'm going to # your face in!" =] I call it a number sign.

It's 'hash' in the UK in terms of telephone keypads. In America, as I understand, it denoted 'number', as in #1, #47, etc.

I call it hash.

depends on the context...i've called it all, but I mostly use it in terms of numbers, so probably that I generally like to rant about it's being unnecessary like forms that have a space for PIN# _________ seriously? personal identification number number? ugghh...so, so overused... that's what I call that symbol, overused

Hash. +5

its the one thing you are allowed to make a hash of

Always called it a hash key. Never heard of it being called a pound sign until I read this thread!

when i was in england it was a hash and its a pound here so i gather either of the two.

SYMBOL FOR NUMBER IN THE UNITED STATES.

pound on the phone and number on a keyboard

Almost allways number.

Pound, unless I'm specifically using it along with a number.

1) I usually call it hash or sharp in English (although # only *looks* like a sharp: ♯ ), "Raute" in German. I just checked that its French name is "croisillon", but I guess that many would also use "diese" (♯). It also looks a little like the Chinese character for well (井 jǐng). 2) "The well-field system (Chinese: 井田制度; pinyin: jǐngtián zhìdù) was a Chinese land distribution method since at least 9th century BC (late Western Zhou Dynasty). It is named after the Chinese character for well (井 jǐng), which looks like the # symbol and represents the theoretical appearance for a piece of land under such an organization: the eight surrounding outer blocks being private (私田; sÄ«tián), and the central one block being communal or public (公田; gōngtián)." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%95 3) "Number sign is a name for the symbol #, which is used for a variety of purposes including the designation of a number (for example, "#1" stands for "number one"). "Number sign" is the preferred Unicode name for the code point. Its Unicode code point is U+0023, and its ASCII value is 0x23 (hexadecimal). In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the symbol is usually called the hash mark, hash sign, or hash symbol. It is also a hash key on touch-tone phones in these areas. As used in the United States on touch-tone telephones, the key on phones is referred to as the pound key, with the symbol being called the pound sign. In Canada, this key is most frequently called the number sign key. Beginning in the 1960s, telephone engineers have attempted to coin a special name for this symbol, with variant spellings including octothorp, octothorpe, octathorp, and octatherp. None has become universal or widely accepted. In non-English speaking nations, other names for this symbol are also used. In many parts of the world, including parts of Europe, Canada, Australia, and Russia, "number sign" is the name of the "numero" sign â„– (Unicode code point U+2116), which is often written simply as No. In some of those countries, the # sign is not used to indicate a number. The symbol is easily confused with the musical symbol called sharp (♯). In both symbols, there are two pairs of parallel lines. The key difference is that the sharp has two diagonal "horizontal" strokes (that is, the horizontals are not truly horizontal in the sharp). By contrast, the number sign (#) does have two truly horizontal strokes, combined with two "vertical" strokes that may or may not be truly vertical depending on the style of typeface or handwriting." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

I may use it for number, e.g. #33 or for pounds, e.g. I weigh 99#.

pound

All three.

Game of noughts and crosses.

I call it pound, hashtag and number depending on how it's used.

pound

Pound, or Shift-3.

all three but at different uses

It’s a hashtag symbol

The symbol # is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, hash, or pound sign. The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes including the designation of an ordinal number and as a ligatured abbreviation for pounds avoirdupois – having been derived from the now-rare ℔.

I know it as "hash" but it can be used to represent a number, as in #1 to mean number one. For pound I think of £ for a pound sterling and lb for a pound in weight.

Usually "pound", as that is the way it is usually described in those terrible automated phone answering things.

Tic, Tac, Toe

Number

21st july 2022...... # hash key