Is it correct to write the telephone abbreviation as Tel when the . . . I think it's hard to argue that "Tel" is not correct given that a mobile phone is a telephone The only reason it should even matter to the reader is if calls to mobile phones cost more than calls to landline phones in your country, and even then if you're only providing one number they don't have any choice but to use that number
etymology - When did phone become accepted as its own word? When did . . . Jokey or generic instances of 'phone' in association with 'telephone', 1878–1879 Instances of phone used for humorous purposes or as a generic term for "fancy invention involving sound and wiring" (or both) are more common than straightforward instances of phone as a short form of telephone
What do you call the main telephone number? I understand that someone's work phone might have an extension What do you call the main number of that office, which would normally be answered by an operator or a computer voice system? Would
vocabulary - Is plunger a familiar word for part of a phone . . . 2 I was looking for the name of the button on a telephone that you push to hang up On older phones where the receiver sits horizontally over two buttons, I've seen them called "plungers " Are people familiar with this term? Is there another term? Is the single button also called a "plunger?"
Cell phone? Cell? Mobile phone? Whats the correct term? In Australia, it has traditionally been a "mobile" - never a "cell" (unless you are deliberately trying to sound American!) However, it is increasingly becoming just a "phone", as landlines continue to disappear from households The one clarifying term might be "my phone" - this would guarantee it to be a mobile phone, rather than a landline
How was tin can phone string phone called before telephone invented? Somewhat later a toy, called the Lovers' String, was made, and is the simplest form of a mechanical telephone The toy consisted of two tin cups, the bottoms made of parchment or cat gut tightly stretched like a drum head, and connected, one with the other, by a string or cord