Subject: Re: Haiku, wakas et al..
From: Bryan R. Farrow (Bryan.R.Farrow@Dartmouth.EDU)
Date: Wed Mar 12 1997 - 16:17:28 GMT
--- Sundeep Dougal wrote:
(phone company vets call it
"octothorpe," of mysterious etymology).
--- end of quoted material ---
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there are 8 (octo) stick-like (thunder/"Thor"/or thorn) around the periphery of
the "pound" sing.
that's my theory
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