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VO: We see a towering building. We see the building has a sign on top, telling us it’s the “Word Facts Tower”
Not: Building scale down to up and text typed in the top.
VO: The Word Facts Investigator is an intelligent confident young woman. She proclaims the hunt is on and the and it’s time to
research another word.Not: Girl come from outside and appear thought bubble .
VO: The symbol that many of us now call a hashtag comes from the Latin sign for “pound by weight…”
Not: Fade out & Scale pound sign and pop-up other hashtag icons.
VO: …it was abstracted and then called either the “pound sign” or the “number sign.”
Not: Character come from outside and sign scale to center.
VO: In the early 1900s, the expression hash mark was used by military officers to refer to a stripe worn on the sleeve indicating how many
years of service have been completed. Not: Character come from outside and appear bubble & text.
VO: The word hash was most likely an alteration of the word hatch, a verb that means “to mark with parallel lines.”
Not: Type text.
VO: By the 1960s, the word “hash” was widely used in reference to the symbol.
Not: Character come from outside Appear scale hash from center and Text and icons appears.
VO: Telephone techs in the Sixties called it the “octothorpe,” but sadly this never caught on.
Not: Hand come to down Appear scale telephone from center and Text appear.