a very bad question

[leo.hou]

Hi guys, prepare for a bad question... I want to know how to pronounce
"~" and "#" in English

 

[Larry]

Hi guys, prepare for a bad question... I want to know how to pronounce
"~" and "#" in English

Tilde and Pound sir.

 

[Tintin]

Hi guys, prepare for a bad question... I want to know how to pronounce
"~" and "#" in English

Depends which variance of English you mean.

For some people, it's:

~ = tilde
# = hash

 

[Peter Wyzl]

: Hi guys, prepare for a bad question... I want to know how to pronounce
: "~" and "#" in English

~ is spelt tilde but pronounced tild or tilled

# is called either pound or hash depending whether you speak US English
(pound) or UK/Australian English (hash)

P

 

[chris-usenet]

Hi guys, prepare for a bad question... I want to know how to
pronounce "~" and "#" in English

Tilde and Pound sir.

Ah. You must be using American English.

In English English it's "tilde" and (usually) "hash", respectively.

However, I've also heard "#" being described as "square" and even
"octothorpe". There's a FAQ somewhere on one of the UK newsgroups about
this.

The noun "pound" is never used for "#" as this word is used[*] for our
currency symbol and an (obsolete) imperial weight measurement.

Ob Perl:
print "UK currency symbol is \x{A3}\n"; # U+00A3 POUND SIGN

Chris

[*] Actually there are other uses of the noun "pound" but none is for
describing the symbol "#".

 

[Paul Lalli]

Hi guys, prepare for a bad question... I want to know how to pronounce
"~" and "#" in English

In addition to the other responses, you should be aware that some people
refer to '#' as a 'number sign'.

Paul Lalli

 

[jl_post]

In addition to the other responses, you should be aware
that some people refer to '#' as a 'number sign'.

Although it's fairly rare, some people will even refer to '#' as the
"tic-tac-toe" sign. (Tic-tac-toe is a simple game played with X's and
O's.)

-- Jean-Luc

 

[phaylon]

Wow. I've read the replies, and not one gives the truly correct name for
this symbol "#"

It's an octothorpe

Try again: <[email protected]>


p

 

[Wondering]

Wow. I've read the replies, and not one gives the truly correct name
for this symbol "#"

It's an octothorpe - though most people use the more generally
understood terms included in the other posts.

Other symbols typically not reffered to by their correct names -
/ Virgule
\ Anti-virgule

I thought there were more compulsive folks reading this group.

 

[Anno Siegel]

Wow. I've read the replies, and not one gives the truly correct name
for this symbol "#"

It's an octothorpe - though most people use the more generally
understood terms included in the other posts.

That statement only shows that you don't know what you are talking about.

The "truly correct name" for # has been discussed on Usenet hundreds of
times. The result is invariably that there is none.

Here is what the alt.usage.english FAQ has to say about "octothorpe":

Finally, in a failed attempt to avoid the naming problem by
creating a new name, the term "octothorp(e)" (which MWCD10 dates
1971) was invented for "#", allegedly by Bell Labs engineers when.

Anno

 

[Anno Siegel]

Wow. I've read the replies, and not one gives the truly correct name
for this symbol "#"

It's an octothorpe - though most people use the more generally
understood terms included in the other posts.

That statement only shows that you don't know what you are talking about.

The "truly correct name" for # has been discussed on Usenet hundreds of
times. The result is invariably that there is none.

Here is what the alt.usage.english FAQ has to say about "octothorpe":

Finally, in a failed attempt to avoid the naming problem by
creating a new name, the term "octothorp(e)" (which MWCD10 dates
1971) was invented for "#", allegedly by Bell Labs engineers when...

Anno

 

[Scott Bryce]

In addition to the other responses, you should be aware that some people
refer to '#' as a 'number sign'.

or "sharp."

 

[Chris Mattern]

or "sharp."

Actually, in spite of what Microsoft would have you believe, a musical
sharp sign, although very similar in appearance to hash/pound/octothorpe,
is in fact different. If you'll look at Unicode UTF-8, you will discover
that the musical sharp sign is code 0x266f.

--
Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"

 

[jhunterj]

Actually, in spite of what Microsoft would have you believe,

You misspelled "ANSI" as "Microsoft" there. ANSI decided that
computers would know #.

a musical sharp sign,

Who said "musical sharp sign"? Scott said some people call # a sharp,
and so they do.

although very similar in appearance to hash/pound/octothorpe,
is in fact different. If you'll look at Unicode UTF-8, you will discover
that the musical sharp sign is code 0x266f.

Unicode doesn't dictate English pronunciation of ASCII symbols though.

 

[David H. Adler]

: Hi guys, prepare for a bad question... I want to know how to pronounce
: "~" and "#" in English

~ is spelt tilde but pronounced tild or tilled

Actually, that 'e' is not silent. See, for instance,
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tilde

(for more on that schwa on the end, try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa)

dha

 

[Martin Kissner]

Paul Lalli wrote :

In addition to the other responses, you should be aware that some people
refer to '#' as a 'number sign'.

.... and others as 'garden fence'
a musician, however, would tell you this is a 'sharp symbol'
see http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m10943/latest/

Regards
Martin

SCNR

 

[Jürgen Exner]

In American English (an oxymoron, probably)

Rather a contradiction

jue

 

[Martin Kissner]

Ah. You must be using American English.

In English English it's "tilde" and (usually) "hash", respectively.

So my version of *nix obviously speaks English English.
see `man ftp | less -p hash` if yours do so, too.

SCNR
Martin

 

[Chris Mattern]

Rather a contradiction

Well, yes, that's what an oxymoron is, you know.
Like "Large medium", "jumbo shrimp", or "military
intelligence".

--
Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"

 

[Eric Schwartz]

Rather a contradiction

Neither. It's a perfectly valid, if wholly inadequate (Which
America? Deep South? Appalachia? Midwest? New England?)
description for a dialect of English.

See "The American Language", Mencken et. al., for further info.

-=Eric, tired of the America-baiting