The # has a name you’d never guess. Developed for touch-tone telephones in 1968, that little hex is called an octothorpe.

Last year, it seemed like everyone was taking all their beauty trend cues from the ‘90s: The bixie haircut, thin eyebrows, ...

We’re using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have taken on new ...