Poll: What is # called?

Charles Reeve

# is called an octothorpe

Gil

It's officially called an "octothorpe"

L

Kudos for being uber geeks.

nadroj

it is really called an octothorpe

ICallIt

I call it a number sign or number key depending on where it is used. Octothorpe has never been widely adopted.

sush

# is called as Hash

tina

What about number as in We're #1!

Robert Ramspott

I notice they say it all the time on Good Aftrnoon America...who started it? The only hash I know is what you smoke. This #, is either a number or pound sign...period.

Tdol

Look at the results for British English- we call it 'hash'.

Linda

It is the pound sign or number sign. where did they get hash from?

Doctore R

Yes Robert Ramspott and all the other protesting Americans, you've got to love Twitter and their 'pound tags' haven't you?

Dargan

There is nothing offical about the word octothorpe, number sign is more universally accepted

blub

@Robert Ramspott
and hash browns!

Nick

And here I was thinking that � is a pound sign..
Hash all the way! (Or 'number', given the context)

marcio

In London it is known as hash

allan d. sundry

I have always called it a crosshatch. Pound makes NO sense!

Oswin Gold

It's called an Octothrope.