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Peter Rukavina

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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Submitted by hannah on

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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’…

Submitted by David Hall on

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Some in Sweden call it brädgård instead of fyrkant (square), but all systems using DTMF in Sweden says “fyrkant” in the instructions.

Submitted by oliver on

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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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