By #isthisthepoundkey? - 01/11/2013 16:49 - United States - Deltona

Today, while working customer service, I instructed a customer to press the pound key on her cellphone. She hesitated a moment before asking, "Um, the pound key? You mean the hashtag, right?" FML
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worldclassrager 39

She is right...but still twitter should have done something else...

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nmrg 10

What are you talking about, it's for Xs and Os right? #thisgenerationissad

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tralala453 22

Actually they do call it the hash key sometimes.

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JBrownie123 24

It's called the hash over in England as we have something else under the name of a pound...

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Randomxnp 10

This - # - is not, and never has been, a pound symbol! It is a hash. The symbol for pound is an elaborate crossed "L" for "libre", Latin for pound. The symbol looks something like this - £.

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chosha_fml 26

That is currency. # is used in the US instead of lb for the measure of weight.

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mrgilbe1 2

Really?! You'd write 'the man weighed 140#' and people would know what you meant? I'm honestly intrigued, never heard of that before.

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DonkeyTeeth2013 22

Would anyone else have said "The number sign"?

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Honema 16

for what could you possibly need to instruct somebody to type £?

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Epikouros 31

Why do Americans call # the pound sign when they don't use it for weights or currency?

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glitterkuro 18

In the UK it's called "hash", "hash key", or "hash sign". So although the girl made a mistake, it's possible that she just mixed the two up in her mind. Most people use the word "hashtag" much more than they would say "hash key". It doesn't necessarily mean that she thought that was the name for it, it could have been an honest mistake because the phrases are so similar and they both refer to the same symbol. I don't think it's anywhere near as big a deal as OP is making it. It's the kind of slip up people make all the time.

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