No, it was the hash "key", it didn't become the "tag" until all that twitter pish. As a Scot, the original post did confuse me - I'd never heard of the "pound key"!

I stand corrected.

Same here. I was wondering what the hell the pound key was. It's referred to as the hash key where I am.

And for what it's worth, I don't consider # on its own to be a hashtag. A # with a word of phrase after it such as #failpoundkey is what I'd think of as a hashtag, but each their own.

#37, Wikipedia lies! It's sometimes called the number sign in the US.

Me too. I always have to think on what a pound key is, since a) I barely every use it and b) it's a number sign. I'd probably recognize hashkey more then pound, since it reminds me of waffle fries. And well the recent association of the symbol to hashtag.

#37 Nope. Australia, too. We also say hash. I've only ever heard it called a pound key, however, by Americans.

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It's not re-naming anything. It's the "hash" sign that's used to "tag" posts on Twitter. That's perfectly logical, yeah? The FML is about using a Twitter thing in real life, not about the word existing.

you already renamed it as a pound sign. pound refers to British currency or weight.

Erin37 - me too! I saw it and had to look at the FML a few times to get what was wrong. Woops.

#51 It's not pound as in currency. It's pound as in the measure of weight. They're still using the imperial system.