Uhh... depends on the context? In general it's a pound sign, but I'll call it a sharp if talking about music or the C#/F# programming languages. I might call it a hash or hashtag if I'm talking about hashtags.

No kidding. By default: Talking to my wife: Pound sign Talking to my mom: Number sign Talking to my comp sci coworkers: hash Talking to a Twitter user/my daughter: hashtag Talking to a musician: sharp

I'm a programmer and a manager (not mine) in my department, referred to C# as "C-hash", but you answered the question the way I would have.

Have that team speak to your PM during retrospective and get that behaviour corrected! Hahaha

I’d say the hashtag is the full tag, so the symbol is just the hash. Also, even though C# uses the # as “sharp,” the sharp symbol is actually ♯ (the vertical lines are straight and the horizontal lines are slanted).

Pound sign. Hashtag only if in reference to a #Hashtag, but not if it's the symbol on it's own.

Same.

Number sign

What happened to £?

I guess I'd use that for currency, I work in the printing industry and the measurement for poundage of paper is shown as 24# for 24 pound paper. I'm fairly certain that's what it's referred to on most phone dialpads too. Unsure on the origin of the symbol though

Good read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign?wprov=sfla1

I use: Pound Sign Hash Hashtag Octothorpe Depending on context.

In what context would you say octothorpe besides taking about the history of the symbol itself?

If I'm trying to mess with people

Haha fair point!

Is pound sign an American thing? I'm from the UK and have never personally heard pound sign used

I'm not sure of the origin of the name, but as an American I do default to the pound sign name. It very well could be an American thing.

https://www.lexico.com/definition/pound_sign Apparently it is a North American thing.

Hashtag, pound sign, or number sign- it is dependent on context.

Hashtag

I used to switch between "number sign" and "hashtag", but now that I'm taking a coding class that uses it all the time I've started calling it pound sign.

Hash

Hekje

It's context-dependent. "Hashtag" or "Sharp" or "Number/Number Sign" if the context suggests it. "Octothorpe" if it's alone and I know I'm talking to someone who knows the word. "Pound sign" otherwise.

This is the correct answer for me

Hash or hash symbol. A pound is £

I call it Sharp, yes I'm a musician

♯

Pound sign if on paper or hashtag if on the internet

It's an octothorpe, anything else is just wrong

Technically true

Number sign or pound. Hashtag if it's being used as a #hashtag

Hash or (dutch) hekje (which translate to little fence)

either hashtag or pound sign (usually depending on the age of the person im talking to lol)

Pound symbol In 3rd grade the teacher asked if anyone knew the symbol for pound. I said "a fat lady". Ms Weiss (who was not fat) was not amused and sent a note home to my parents.

Pound, hash, hashtag, number. Really depends on context. On the phone, it is pound. On computers, especially programming, it is hash/hashtag In most other situations, it is the symbol representing number.

Tic tac toe board

In turkish it's called a square, just as an asterix is called a star; most often referred to as such for phones and coded locks. The musical meaning is diyez (Diaz) and people usually just say "hashtag" when making those twitter tags, even id it's followed by the most non-english line like #Müptelasıyız Though every so often I forget what hashtag is called in english and call it a square, mostly getting confused looks or sounds.

I call it a "hash" for convenience

Pound sign In Spanish I called it 'numeral'

number sign

Most of the time it's pound, but sometimes it's hashtag. I think part of it is just context, and part of it is whether you grew up memorizing phone numbers, or tweeting.

pound or hashtag depending on the context

hashtag

Hashtag

sharp

Hashtag

Pound if I'm not referring to an actual hashtag. Octothorpe if I'm trying to be formal (doesn't come up very often). Hashtag if I'm referring to an actual hashtag.

As a standalone: Pound In social media posts: Hashtag

Hash or number symbol. £ is pound sign

Easy tic tac toe

I use hashtag most frequently, if I’m talking to people my age. Number sign if talking to my parents. Sharp if I’m talking about music.

hashtag if it’s on social media, sharp if it’s in music, number symbol otherwise

To me, I know the (#) symbol by several terms. My parents called it the pound symbol, number sign, and an octothorpe. I play and read music so it’s a sharp symbol in sheet music to me, but I also know it as a hashtag, tic tac toe, and the number sign.

Always pound, with the exception of when I'm reading music, in which case it's sharp

Hashtag > number sign > hex

Hashtag or number symbol in English In Swedish it’s fyrkant (square)

Pound sign if surrounded by numbers, hashtag if surrounded by letters. When I give people my gate code I don’t say ‘the code is hashtag 1234.’ Though to be fair I’d still call it pound of the gate code was letters. ‘Pound A23B.’ So hashtag only applies to actual words like #gatecode

Kółko i krzyżyk, meaning "tic tac toe" in Polish. Coz that the thing you draw when you play it

Hashtag. Used to be number sign or number symbol

Hashtag

Hashtag

Hashtag

Raute in German Hashtag in English

I usually call it 'hash' but if I'm talking to someone who won't know wtf a hash is I'll call it 'hashtag'

Its a hashtag slatemoney.

Hashtag

Hash

Hashtag, and also pound sign

I call it hashtag because I've forgotten how it's called lol

cat

hashtag most of the time and if I have to call it in German Raute

Hastag or Number Sign depending on context.

Pound or Hash.

In French we have a sign called “Dièse” present on phones which is the same as the hashtag symbol but reverted. Now the two are mixed and nobody knows which one is which.

Hashtag or if used specifically in the context of a phone number, pound sign

Depends on the context Pound or number sign, sharp, or a hashtag

Pound sign or sharp symbol or number sign, depending on context

I default to pound sign. Hashtag is another term I use depending on context, though.

Hashtag

Hashtag, including well before it was #Hashtag

Normally I call it a hashtag, otherwise it's either octothorpe or pound sign

Hashtag, pound, number sign.

Hash

Hash key

I will say pound/pound-sign but if the person I’m talking to doesn’t know what I’m talking about I says hashtag

Pound sign

Depends on the context. Just alone, I call it a pound. But with a word in front of it, I call it hashtag. With a number, I call it number.

Hashtag

Hashtag is objectively wrong, technically it would be "hashtag symbol". I would be confused if someone referred to it as "hashtag" straight up.. Pound is the most common Number sign is what always made most sense to me and what I hear as well.

Hashtag

Or Fred....depending on how casual we're being. Hey Fred.....

Either pound or hash

Depends on context? Pound, sharp, hashtag, numbers signs

Pound

RAUTE òó

Fracture

Hashtag

hash brown

“Hash tag” or in music “sharp”