Results: Symbols: then and now
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1.
Look at the symbol in the picture, and choose what you knew it first as:
Hashtag
13%
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218 votes
Number sign
79%
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1367 votes
N.A
6%
•
98 votes
Other (please specify)
3%
•
58 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| pound sign | 1.26% | 22 |
| pound | 0.52% | 9 |
| 0.29% | 5 | |
| tic tac toe | 0.23% | 4 |
| pound key | 0.11% | 2 |
| pounds | 0.11% | 2 |
| musical sharp | 0.06% | 1 |
| poundsign | 0.06% | 1 |
| pound sighn | 0.06% | 1 |
| a pound sigh | 0.06% | 1 |
| both | 0.06% | 1 |
| pound as in a # of ground beef | 0.06% | 1 |
| pound symbol | 0.06% | 1 |
| pound key, or number sign, hashtag (in computer programming, not this social media garbage :d ) | 0.06% | 1 |
| pound sign (engineering) | 0.06% | 1 |
| a dash. | 0.06% | 1 |
| the above two a | 0.06% | 1 |
| also, as pound on a telephone pad. | 0.06% | 1 |
| number sign, pound, hashtag in that order | 0.06% | 1 |
| tic tac toe board | 0.06% | 1 |
2.
2.
What about this sign, what did you know it as first?:
Is originally an accounting and commercial invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of"
15%
•
265 votes
For the word "at"
62%
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1085 votes
Inserted in emails
16%
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286 votes
N.A
6%
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96 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
•
9 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| i'm | 0.06% | 1 |
| the above two and pounds! | 0.06% | 1 |
| all the above | 0.06% | 1 |
| at | 0.06% | 1 |
| tagging someone | 0.06% | 1 |
| and | 0.06% | 1 |
| each at | 0.06% | 1 |
| 0.06% | 1 | |
| cash register....?? of items @ ?? price | 0.06% | 1 |
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3.
Last sign(s):
The symbols used to make arrows
10%
•
180 votes
Knew these first as less than and greater than
82%
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1428 votes
N.A
7%
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126 votes
Other (please specify)
0%
•
7 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.17% | 3 | |
| l | 0.06% | 1 |
| left or right | 0.06% | 1 |
| diamond club | 0.06% | 1 |
| algebra | 0.06% | 1 |
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