If you want to follow conversation threads relating to this show on social media—whether Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, Tumblr—you know to look for the hashtag: #99pi. In our current digital age, ...

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Not being a tweeter, I rarely think about the octothorpe, now known more commonly as a hashtag. I do mark students’ papers by hand, though, and one thing I tend to insert — when no one is spelled as ...

From the Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 30: Twitter users may not know it but they are likely to be addicts of the octothorpe, a symbol with a Latin provenance. Now more commonly known as the ...

From the Romans to Twitter, the hash sign – or octothorpe – has had a rich history, and now this innocuous little character has found a mighty resurgence as the hashtag. What happened along the way?

The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex–whatever you call it, the four-stroke cross-hatch possibly born at Bell The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex–whatever you call it, the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The technology field is ripe with peculiar acronyms, vendor names and abbreviations. To compound ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. When punctuation geeks assembled earlier this month at Punctuacon, our annual convention, we spent the usual ...

As athletes from around the globe gather in Paris and its environs for the XXXIII Summer Olympics later this month, ask yourself: How would you like it if you won gold medals in two of the Olympics’ ...

We haven't seen a typographical resurrection like it since the @, an obscure accounting symbol meaning "at the rate of", was pressed into service to form the first email address in 1971. According to ...