Pound key? Que?

Cira Larkin - Studio 53 · **Voice Talent** Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 497

Freddie, you're going to think I'm an idiot.

For those of us who don't know Spanish, I thought I'd share. I never ran into this before:

I just did an IVR for a company's satellite office in Portugal that they wanted voiced in English. Many of their prompts went something like, "For accounting, please press 2, and then the number sign, now". I asked if they would rather have me say, "Please press the pound key", and the client told me there is no Spanish word for # , and because "pound" has so many universal meanings (hash mark -UK, for example), weight measurements, etc., it is very confusing. There is a visual Unicode symbol for No., but not the actual word.

So if you are ever asked to say "the number sign", don't question them!

Freddie Molina · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007, 22:12 (GMT) Post subject: Re: Pound key? Que?

Joe J Thomas · **Voice Talent** Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 1521

Yeppers - plenty of symbols have multiple names...

Here's what I call some of 'em:

# Hash mark, Pound key, Number sign
~ Tilde
() Parens
{} Braces
[] Square-brackets
^ Caret
/ Slash, Forward-slash
\ Back-slash
' Single-quote, Apostrophe, Foot
" Double-quote, Inch
` Back-quote, Back-tick

... how about if I just turn on my web cam and point to the one I'm talking about!!!

Cheers,
Joe

September Day Leach · **Voice Talent** Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 1526

I remember the first time I found out that the "co" in .co.uk was pronounced "coe", not "see-oh". Thought that was interesting.

Cira Larkin - Studio 53 · **Voice Talent** Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 497

That's interesting....

Thanks, you guys. Glad to know I'm not the only one!

Cira Larkin - Studio 53 · **Voice Talent** Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 497

Freddie Molina · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007, 23:01 (GMT) Post subject: Re: Pound key? Que?

Michelle Ann Dunphy · **Voice Talent** Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 181

We do we do love ya Cira. Hehe. Honestly, I would have had no clue either. Thanks for the heads up. Smile

Cira Larkin - Studio 53 · **Voice Talent** Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 497