All the Swedes I’ve talked to refer to the # sign as square. Like “to get your balance you press star 1 2 0 square and then call.”
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In the UK it’s called a hash.
In the UK it’s called a hash. I get a lot of funny looks when I set up conference calls here - ‘press the 6 hash to mute your line’…
Some in Sweden call it
Some in Sweden call it brädgård instead of fyrkant (square), but all systems using DTMF in Sweden says “fyrkant” in the instructions.
That’s nuts calling it a
That’s nuts calling it a square. It’s a hairy rhombus.
I just remembered that
I just remembered that automated phone answerers here call it “the pound sign.” I had no idea what they meant for the longest time.
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