mot-diese
Alarmed by the encroachment of English tech jargon into their tongue, the language police in France have ruled that all government references to, you know, hashtags, will now use the term "mot-diese," or pound-sign word, pcmag.com reports.
The pound sign (#) is also known as the "pound key," "hash," "number sign" and "octothorpe." One origins story for "octothorpe" is that a Bell Labs engineer created it in the early 1960s from "octo-" (a prefix meaning "eight") and the name of Olympian Jim Thorpe, because the engineer was a fan.
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