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    The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British...
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  • is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, hash, or pound sign. The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes...
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    pound of silver. Newly invented currencies and currencies adopting new symbols have symbolism meaningful to their adopter. For example, the euro sign...
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    and nine of its associated territories. The pound (sign: £) is the main unit of sterling, and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency...
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  • other languages. In English the euro sign – like the dollar sign ⟨$⟩ and the pound sign ⟨£⟩ – is usually placed before the figure, unspaced, the reverse...
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  • symbol for the pound sterling, £ Number sign (also pound sign), the symbol # Pound, Virginia, a town Pound, Wisconsin, a village Pound (town), Wisconsin...
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    The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. Various definitions have...
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    currency sign for the British pound sterling (to abbreviate the Latin libra, a pound, see £sd); in modern usage, it has been overtaken by the pound sign (£)...
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    explosion. Euro sign Indian rupee sign Pound sign Ruble sign Rupee sign Spanish dollar Turkish lira sign Yen and yuan sign Won sign As of April 2022[update]...
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    most hash signs in Europe now follow the 80 degree inclination.[citation needed] The pound sign (not to confused with the pound currency sign) was adopted...
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  • C-sharp (redirect from C pound sign)
    Look up C sharp or C♯ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. C-sharp, C♯, or C# may refer to: C♯ (musical note) C-sharp major, a musical scale C-sharp minor...
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  • The pound is the currency of the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The symbol is the pound sign, £. The ISO...
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  • The pound (sign: £; ISO code: GIP) is the currency of Gibraltar. It is pegged to – and exchangeable with – British pound sterling at par value. Coins and...
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  • and for "Kinzcash", the currency of the online game Webkinz. "When is a backslash not a backslash?". archives.miloush.net. Pound sign#Double dash style...
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    Lira (redirect from Lira sign)
    general, U+00A3 pound sign may be used for both the various currencies known as pound and the currencies known as lira. Examples include the pound unit in sterling...
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    The pound (sign: £, £A for distinction) was the currency of Australia from 1910 until 14 February 1966, when it was replaced by the Australian dollar...
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  • encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially...
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  • decades of discussion on decimalisation as a 1⁄1000 division of sterling's pound. While this system was never adopted in the United Kingdom, the currencies...
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    indicate special keywords that the C preprocessor had to process first. The pound sign was adopted for use within IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks around 1988...
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  • whom they feel are the top fighters in the UFC by weight class and pound-for-pound. A fighter is only eligible to be voted on if they are of active status...
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    on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the top 40 hit "Pound Sign (#?*!)". In addition, he wrote Sammy Kershaw's 2003 single "Beer, Bait...
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    The pound (sign: £) was the currency of Fiji between 1873 and 1969. It was subdivided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. From its earliest days as a...
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    The Palestine pound (Arabic: جُنَيْه فِلَسْطَينِيّ, junayh filastini; Hebrew: פוּנְט פַּלֶשְׂתִינָאִי (א״י), romanized: funt palestina'i (eretz-yisra'eli)...
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    a horizontal stroke through the middle and looks very similar to the pound sign £. In the cursive lowercase letter, the stroke is also horizontal and...
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  • The pound (Manx: Punt Manninagh; abbreviation: IMP; sign: £) is the currency of the Isle of Man, at parity with sterling. The Manx pound is divided into...
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  • use of the £ (pound) and € (euro) currency symbols, which are common needs in the United Kingdom and Ireland, although the $ (dollar sign) symbol is also...
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    for schwa. In the eighteenth-century Caslon metal fonts, the British pound sign (£) was set with a rotated italic uppercase J. The following rotated (turned)...
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    Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry...
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    Medical prescription (redirect from Rx sign)
    imperative form of recipere meaning "receive" or "take". Compare with Pound sign#Origin. Transliteration as Rx is ubiquitous but erroneous, it is not an...
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    Headie One (redirect from Pound Signs)
    Spotify. Kenneally, Cerys (25 June 2021). "Headie One unveils new single 'Pound Signs'". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 30 June 2021. "My Way by Smallgod...
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