may i ask?? # #

janet said:

hello
Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing at all to do
with cooking...although i often look at your recipes...
I m english.. left to live in marseille france
35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
#

it is a hash and is often used to indicate a number

Welcome to rec.food.cooking🙂

Quoted message said:

What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

Thanks a million

Bon week end à tous
janet

Laughter is the best medicine

janet said:

hello
Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing at all to do
with cooking...although i often look at your recipes...
I m english.. left to live in marseille france
35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
#
What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

Thanks a million

Bon week end à tous
janet

Laughter is the best medicine

It is called both the number sign and the pound sign. Look it up on Google.

"janet" <[email hidden]> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

hello
Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing at all to do with
cooking...although i often look at your recipes...
I m english.. left to live in marseille france
35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
#
What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

Thanks a million

Bon week end à tous
janet

Out of context I cannot be sure, but it can mean one pound in weight or
stand in for the word "number."

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janet said:

hello
Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing at all to do
with cooking...although i often look at your recipes...
I m english.. left to live in marseille france
35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
#
What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

Thanks a million

Bon week end à tous
janet

Laughter is the best medicine

It's the pound sign, indicating (in the case of recipes) a pound of whatever
ingredient.

Jill

jmcquown said:

janet said:

hello
Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing at all to do
with cooking...although i often look at your recipes...
I m english.. left to live in marseille france
35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
#
What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

Thanks a million

Bon week end à tous
janet

Laughter is the best medicine

It's the pound sign, indicating (in the case of recipes) a pound of
whatever ingredient.

I never knew that!!! we always write lb as in 5lb

janet said:

#
What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

Laughter is the best medicine

Sometimes used as a pound sign to indicate weight as in 5#.

Sometimes used to indicate a "number" as in #5.

Often used on the Internet to indicate an alphabet letter as in #uck
u.

Sheldon

Ophelia wrote on Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:23:54 +0100:

O> jmcquown wrote:
??>> janet wrote:
??>>> hello
??>>> Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing
??>>> at all to do with cooking...although i often look at your
??>>> recipes... I m english.. left to live in marseille france
??>>> 35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
??>>> #
??>>> What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???
??>>>
??>>> Thanks a million
??>>>
??>>> Bon week end à tous
??>>> janet
??>>>
??>>> Laughter is the best medicine
??>>
??>> It's the pound sign, indicating (in the case of recipes) a
??>> pound of whatever ingredient.

Hash, number, pound as has been said and also sometimes a result
of sending with a different character set from that of the
receiver :-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

wow!!!!
it seems to mean a helluver lot of things....but nothing really precise....
well BIG thanks for your kind replies.
languages and things change sooooooooooo ..

bon appetit
janet

In article <[email hidden]>,

janet said:

hello
Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing at all to do with
cooking...although i often look at your recipes...
I m english.. left to live in marseille france
35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
#
What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

Thanks a million

Bon week end à tous
janet

It does have to do with cooking -- more than much posted here.
Janet, on our telephones it is referred to as "the pound sign." In
recipes it indicates pounds (weight) as does lb. or lbs. So, 1 kilo of
beef is equal to 2.2# of beef in the USA.

It's also recognized as a sign to indicate a number follows. E.g., #1,
#9, etc.

HTH.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
For your listening pleasure: http://www.am1500.com/pcast/80509.mp3 --
from the MN State Fair, 8-29-07

In article <[email hidden]>, "Ophelia" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

jmcquown wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It's the pound sign, indicating (in the case of recipes) a pound of
whatever ingredient.

I never knew that!!! we always write lb as in 5lb

Same thing. I know the origin of lb, but I don't know the origin of the
# sign.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
For your listening pleasure: http://www.am1500.com/pcast/80509.mp3 --
from the MN State Fair, 8-29-07

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>, "Ophelia"

Quoted message said:

jmcquown wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It's the pound sign, indicating (in the case of recipes) a pound of
whatever ingredient.

I never knew that!!! we always write lb as in 5lb

Same thing. I know the origin of lb, but I don't know the origin of
the # sign.

I just know my grandmother wrote her recipes with #1 flour, etc. I always
re-wrote them to say lb. or pound, but I knew what she meant 🙂

Jill

janet said:

Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing at all to do with
cooking...although i often look at your recipes...
I m english.. left to live in marseille france
35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
#
What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

In the context of this newsgroup, the sign is still used in only one
ex-colonial location in the whole wide English-speaking world. It is a
pound (as in weight) sign, so does have to do with cooking quite a bit.

Victor

Melba's Jammin said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

janet said:

hello
Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing at all to do with
cooking...although i often look at your recipes...
I m english.. left to live in marseille france
35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
#
What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

Thanks a million

Bon week end à tous
janet

It does have to do with cooking -- more than much posted here.
Janet, on our telephones it is referred to as "the pound sign."

Its really the "octothorp"...

In

Quoted message said:

recipes it indicates pounds (weight) as does lb. or lbs. So, 1 kilo of
beef is equal to 2.2# of beef in the USA.

It's also recognized as a sign to indicate a number follows. E.g., #1,
#9, etc.

HTH.

James Silverton said:

Ophelia wrote on Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:23:54 +0100:

Quoted message said:

jmcquown said:

janet wrote:
> hello
> Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing
> at all to do with cooking...although i often look at your
> recipes... I m english.. left to live in marseille france
> 35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
> #
> What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???
>
> Thanks a million
>
> Bon week end à tous
> janet
>
> Laughter is the best medicine

It's the pound sign, indicating (in the case of recipes) a
pound of whatever ingredient.

Hash, number, pound as has been said and also sometimes a result
of sending with a different character set from that of the
receiver :-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

My grandmother certainly never had a computer (given she died in 1983). She
wrote recipes with 1# flour (or sugar, etc.) Had nothing to do with a
computer, a receiver, etc. It was to indicate a measurement, in this case a
pound.

Jill

Quoted message said:

My grandmother certainly never had a computer (given she died in
1983). She wrote recipes with 1# flour (or sugar, etc.) Had nothing
to do with a computer, a receiver, etc. It was to indicate a
measurement, in this case a pound.

<<
was this sign "made in the USA " ???? and maybe used later in GB ???
i learnt pounds were either £ or lbs. but that was back before the
dinosaurs... ;-) and i never had that sign on my typewriting days.
(I left GB in 1968.)

(It's interesting the changes in languages ... when I left.. [censored] was a very
rude word, now it s used continually .)

just to stay in the 'charte"

GRATIN DAUPHINOIS

A very nice dish with potatoes It's a speciality from the Dauphiné region
in the South East of France around Grenoble. But eaten every week by my kids
here in Marseille it's their favourite dish!

For 4 people
Ingredients:
750 grammes of potatoes,
25 centilitres of milk, 30 centilitres of cream,
nutmeg,
1 tablespoon of butter,
3 clove of garlic,
salt pepper.

Préparation:
Clean, peel and cut the potatoes in slices of about 3 millimetres .( 0,12
inches ).
Place the potatoes in a pan and add the milk, a teaspoon of butter, salt,
pepper and the nutmeg.
Bring it to a boil then reduce the heat and keep cooking for about 8 to 10
minutes . Stir it from time to time.
Add 30 centilitres of cream and let it cook slowly for about 5 minutes. Take
if off the burner and add the garlic.
In a delicate manner, place it all nicely in an oven dish. Level the surface
and let it cool off.
Preheat your oven at 180 degrees Celsius. Once the oven is hot, put the dish
in it and let it cook for 15 to 20 minutes.
It's ready.

Bon appétit!

janet said:

Quoted message said:

My grandmother certainly never had a computer (given she died in
1983). She wrote recipes with 1# flour (or sugar, etc.) Had nothing
to do with a computer, a receiver, etc. It was to indicate a
measurement, in this case a pound.

<<
was this sign "made in the USA " ???? and maybe used later in GB ???
i learnt pounds were either £ or lbs. but that was back before the
dinosaurs... ;-) and i never had that sign on my typewriting days.
(I left GB in 1968.)

(laughing) I remember when a typewriter/keyboard had a cents symbol to
indicate pennies. It vanished, for some reason. As to the # sign, I have
no clue. My grandmother (the one who used this # sign to indicate pounds in
her hand written recipes) was of German descent. Born around the turn of
the last century and raised in Pennsylvania. So it's probably a USian thing
but I really couldn't say for sure.

Quoted message said:

(It's interesting the changes in languages ... when I left.. [censored] was
a very rude word, now it s used continually .)

Heh, lots of words are used now that used to be rude.

Quoted message said:

just to stay in the 'charte"

GRATIN DAUPHINOIS

Snipped lovely recipe. Yes, I love those potatoes!

Jill

In article <[email hidden]>,

Sheldon said:

janet said:

#
What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

Laughter is the best medicine

Sometimes used as a pound sign to indicate weight as in 5#.

Sometimes used to indicate a "number" as in #5.

Often used on the Internet to indicate an alphabet letter as in #uck
u.

Sheldon

Normal people use an * Assterisk for that.
--
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Remove _ to validate e-mails.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]" -- Jack Nicholson

In article <[email hidden]>,

George said:

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It does have to do with cooking -- more than much posted here.
Janet, on our telephones it is referred to as "the pound sign."

Its really the "octothorp"...

Thank you.

--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
For your listening pleasure: http://www.am1500.com/pcast/80509.mp3 --
from the MN State Fair, 8-29-07

janet said:

hello
Sorry to bother you .. Just a question which has nothing at all to do with
cooking...although i often look at your recipes...
I m english.. left to live in marseille france
35 years ago when this sign didn t exist
#
What the "Dickens" does it mean and what is it's name???

It a sharp sign or a hash. People who say it's a pound sign or
number sign obviously have no business posting to Usenet.

-sw