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13 Wonderful Words That You're Not Using (Yet)

Once you learn these rare words, we challenge you to use them in conversation.
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Brian Fitzgerald
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While connecting to a conference call by phone, I've heard requests to press the pound or hash key but never the octothorpe key. My spell-checker thinks octothorp is e-less.
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Murray J Brown ✦
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I was surprised to find 'octothorpe' on this list; it is a word I've used on occasion, although I didn't know that it was a recent invention, coined in 1968 by engineers at Bell Labs, which explains why it may be more prevalent among phreakers and programmers.
See Wikipedia for its etymology.

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