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: We see out main Word Facts investigator step into the scene.

Not: girl come from outside.

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: Hashtag. That’s a good word.Not: Zoom on character and Appear thought

bubble .

VO: Why is called a Hashtag? Let’s find out!Not: Text fade in and appear line by scale .

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.

Transition slideNot: Cut the text.

Transition slideNot: scale to canter 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.

VO: Computer geeks in the Eighties built this symbol into their character sets, calling it a “hash,” and today hashtags are mainstays of Twitter and

Instagram!.Not: Character come from canter appear by scale appear # on t-shirt.