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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:57:03 GMT
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

> > That's been obscure even in the US for many a year, frankly - but
> > the legacy pronunciation of # survives to this day.  
> 
> I suspect that this is because "pound" is (at least somewhat)
> easier and faster to pronounce than the others.  As we all know,
> convenience trumps just about everything else - remember the
> "baud" vs "bps" confusion.

Seems plausible - may also have to do with phone-tree systems and how
intelligible "hash" is or isn't over a muffled line, vs. a word that
begins and ends with hard consonants.