Brevity by Dan Thompson for November 27, 2015

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    HeckleMeElmo  about 9 years ago

    Looking sharp runs in the family.

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    GrimmaTheNome  about 9 years ago

    Surely # was previously ‘hash’ or ‘number’ sign? The pound sign is, as it ever was, £.

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    clayusmcret Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Either way it’s still two syllables.

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    Darryl Heine  about 9 years ago

    #&@

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    shipl14  about 9 years ago

    What a tweet guy

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    dsom8  about 9 years ago

    Grandpa was called Octotherp.

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    wellis1947 Premium Member about 9 years ago

    The real (read original) name for this sign is “Octothorp”.

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    19Tardis63  about 9 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

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    electricshadow Premium Member about 9 years ago

    reinforced in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” on Nov. 28, 2015

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