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- Is it correct to write the telephone abbreviation as Tel when the . . .
In business communications, the courtesy of specifying the type of phone (for reasons of calling cost) is less important than in private communications, as calling both is a business expense However if you are giving a landline and a mobile number it makes sense to specify which is which (Tel: and Mob: would be the normal way to abbreviate them in British English) The meaning of Mob: may not
- 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
- 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
- What are more formal synonyms for telephone tag?
Here is Wikipedia's definition: Phone tag is a phenomenon in which two parties attempt to contact each other by telephone, but neither is able to get a hold of the other for a conversation Both
- phrases - In answering a telephone call, why do you say Who is this . . .
On the telephone, the person answering it may say "Who is calling?" or "Who is this?" Why do you say "this" to the caller on the other end of the phone? Is is wrong to say "Who is that?"
- punctuation - Standard format for phone numbers? - English Language . . .
The recommended style of presentation of new telephone numbers is based on customer research Brackets are used to identify the national code - which is omitted when dialling within the same area
- 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
- What is the difference between a phone book, a directory, and the . . .
In the UK 'phone book' is an informal name for what would be more formally described as 'the telephone directory'; however, the much reduced version still issued by British Telecom actually calls itself The Phone Book It contains both residential and business numbers, but there is also a separate classified business directory printed on yellow paper and called The Yellow Pages in imitation of
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