And far less dubious if coined by Scottish farmers in 1668?? :-) Bob S > On Jul 4, 2017, at 10:01 , Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Well . . . as the name "octothorpe" was coined by American telephone engineers as recently as 1968 > that seems extremely dubious . . .