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[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by Planet hopper

Here if you say probono, 80% people listening will think the lawyer supports U2

Me hiciste reír! Nunca se me ocurrió eso.

[Amanpour]

Thank you guys so much for all your help and contributions, you´ve all been very helpful, as always.
Sosia, you guessed correctly, I needed the translation, not the man... he wouldn´t have been enough...
Poli, Pro Bono is used in the UK as well, it´s actually a Latin word.

Now, I´d like to know why the word Pro Bono will remind someone of U2, I didn´t quite get the joke...

[CrOtALiTo]

It's because an integrant of the group is named Bono, I'm right.?

[Planet hopper]

Right, the singer is bono. Whether in the Uk you can say probono or not, I think is outside the original topic, which was how to say it in Spanish, not in British English.

In my environment, probono would not be recognised by an average speaker, not even by people with some language knowledge. Latin does not sound so well in Spanish as you guys think. We would say probono is a 'latinajo', a far-fetched latin phrase. All my respects to other necks of the woods, actually interested in those