Editing Pound sign (section)

== Other English variants ==
In [[Canadian English]], the symbol {{char|£}} is called the pound sign. The symbol {{char|#}} has several uses and is sometimes called the pound sign too, though it is most often known as the number sign.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Barber|editor1-first= Katherine|title=The Canadian Oxford dictionary|date=2004|publisher= Oxford University Press |location=Toronto|isbn=0-19-541816-6|edition=2nd}}</ref> (Telephone instructions for equipment manufactured in the United States often call {{char|#}} the pound key.)

In [[American English]], the term "pound sign" usually refers to the symbol {{char|#}} ([[number sign]]), and the corresponding telephone key is called the "pound key".<ref name="nyt">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/magazine/on-language-hit-the-pound-sign.html | title=On Language; Hit the Pound Sign | author=William Safire | author-link=William Safire | work=[[New York Times]] | access-date=2011-05-21 | date=1991-03-24 | archive-date=2010-07-21 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721065416/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/magazine/on-language-hit-the-pound-sign.html | url-status=live }}</ref> (As in Canada, the # symbol has many [[number sign|other uses]].)