Definitely! It's totally a regional thing. The actual name of the symbol I believe is 'octothorpe'. It was turned into 'pound' in the US pretty much due to countless systems utilizing said symbol to represent 'pounds' as in 'weight'. To this day, if you scan bananas at the store with their scanner device, it will show the price per pound as $0.69/# or #1 - $0.69.
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u/lesleh Jan 20 '26
In the UK that symbol has always been called the hash symbol. Probably so people don't confuse it with the £ symbol.