How to pronounce octothorpe
American English pronunciation
OK-toh-thorp
- IPA
- /ˈɑktoʊˌθɔɹp/
- Syllables
- OK · toh · thorp (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What octothorpe means
The pound or hash sign on a keypad
In a sentence: Press the octothorpe after you type in your phone number.
Where it comes from: Probably made up at Bell Labs in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when the sign was added to telephone keypads. Stories of exactly how differ.
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