Your favourite name for @

[nutkin]

Correct. I stand chastened and all I can offer in excuse is that the quit command live sin my muscle memory these days not my brain

Explain this in more detail, please... 

[pcolbeck]

Correct. I stand chastened and all I can offer in excuse is that the quit command live sin my muscle memory these days not my brain

Explain this in more detail, please... 

My typing foo is crap too.

[Wowbagger]

* star

I have heard it called an asterix!

I always fin that galling.

[nutkin]

Correct. I stand chastened and all I can offer in excuse is that the quit command live sin my muscle memory these days not my brain

Explain this in more detail, please... 

My typing foo is crap too.

Shame. I was looking forward to a definition of 'live sin'!

[pcolbeck]

If only spell checkers could look at context as well as individual words.

[thing1]

#  has to be octothorpe.
Any other name is just ambiguous.

[hellymedic]

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I have heard it called an asterix!

I always fin that galling.

I find it Gaulling.

I find it galling when some people want to 'axe' a question...

[Tim Hall]

"curl alpha" in Norwegian, I think.

[clarion]

Correct. I stand chastened and all I can offer in excuse is that the quit command live sin my muscle memory these days not my brain

Explain this in more detail, please... 

My typing foo is crap too.

Shame. I was looking forward to a definition of 'live sin'!

You mean you don't know?  

I'd offer to demonstrate...

[Rhys W]

I've heard it called malwen in Welsh, meaning "snail"

[Pingu]

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[Adrian]

...it's the word "Octothorpe" for the # symbol.

One call queuing system I phone regularly says "please enter your user ID followed by the pound key".

Since when did # look like £ 

When used by a call queue it is "pound key" as in "the one you end up hitting repeatedly in frustration"

[Zipperhead]

Add alcohol before registering a domain name and that's how you end up with mixing it all up and getting stuck with bashq.org for the rest of your life rather than the *nix derived domain name you intended to register ...

A friend of mine became the domain registrar for Saint Helena just so that he could bag the unix.sh domain for himself.

[pcolbeck]

Add alcohol before registering a domain name and that's how you end up with mixing it all up and getting stuck with bashq.org for the rest of your life rather than the *nix derived domain name you intended to register ...

A friend of mine became the domain registrar for Saint Helena just so that he could bag the unix.sh domain for himself.

That's dedication.

[Greenbank]

Similarly a friend did likewise for Austria so he could have an email address of:

p@at

There was also the person with the email address:-

dot@dotat.at

[CAMRAMan]

" Kanelbulla" in Swedish...

...Meaning a squiggly type of cinnamon bun & very tasty they are too.

In Hungarian, @ = kukac, which is worm in English

[pcolbeck]

Similarly a friend did likewise for Austria so he could have an email address of:

p@at

There was also the person with the email address:-

dot@dotat.at

That's even more confusing than slashdot.org

[Panoramix]

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I have heard it called an asterix!

I suspect that the offender was a francophone as it can be called asterisque in French.

@ in French is arrobasse but when the internet got to us some people did not know what it was and started refering to it as "a bizarre" which translates to "weird a"

[philip]

!q does nothing, my copy of vi beeps at me when I type ! as it isn't an command in normal mode.

! is the filter command, e.g. !3jwc will replace the four lines covered by 3j with the output of wc acting on those lines. Too much live sin will distract you and prevent you from achieving vi enlightenment.

[Cudzoziemiec]

...it's the word "Octothorpe" for the # symbol.

One call queuing system I phone regularly says "please enter your user ID followed by the pound key".

Since when did # look like £  

That's because they haven't translated it properly from US English. In the usa # is known as the pound symbol as it was used instead of lb when referring to weights eg 12# instead of 12lb. So no connection with pound as in £ sterling.

i always assumed it was because it looked vaguely like a square equilateral field with 4 walls - a pound, as in a compound.

But for me it's a sharp sign.

[Greenbank]

But for me it's a sharp sign.

They're two different symbols...

From: Number sign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia #

"
The symbol is easily confused with the musical symbol called sharp (♯). In both symbols, there are two pairs of parallel lines. The key difference is that the sharp has two diagonal "horizontal" strokes (that is, the horizontals are not truly horizontal in the sharp). By contrast, the number sign (#) does have two truly horizontal strokes, combined with two "vertical" strokes that may or may not be truly vertical depending on the style of typeface or handwriting.
"

[Butterfly]

# = fracture. The only time I've used it regularly apart from as 'number' in America is a student nurse, so I still tend to call it that .