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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • stroke or bar was used to indicate abbreviation. For example, ⟨£⟩, the pound sign, is a stylised form of the letter ⟨Ꝉ⟩ (the letter ⟨L⟩ with a cross bar)...
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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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    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 (abbreviation: IMP; sign: £), or Manx pound (Manx: Punt Manninagh; in order to distinguish it from other similar-named currencies), is the currency...
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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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    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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    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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    The Palestine pound (Arabic: جُنَيْه فِلَسْطَينِيّ, junayh filastini; Hebrew: פוּנְט פַּלֶשְׂתִינָאִי (א״י), romanized: funt palestina'i (eretz-yisra'eli)...
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  • form of mathematical notation Number sign (#), also known as the hash, hash mark, or (in American English) pound sign Service stripe, a military and paramilitary...
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    happening". The party's logo is an upside-down pound sign, not dissimilar to UKIP's purple and gold pound sign. Murray said: "it seems to me that the UK is...
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