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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.
telephone - What do you say when you talk over phone but you …
Nov 8, 2014 · I bought my first phone in my life and I now sometimes get calls from friends and co workers. Sometimes the signal of phone doesn't work well and I can't hear them.
Cell phone? Cell? Mobile phone? What's the "correct" term?
Dec 28, 2011 · This term distinguishes the device in a bit different dimension; it describes the capabilities as opposed to older handheld devices (smartphones are the devices that combine a microcomputer and a telephone). So, strictly speaking, if you want to be specific to different types of devies you should use different terms in different cases.
"Call me through/at/on this number" - English Language & Usage …
@Mohammad: It may be that "through [telephone number]" is more common in the US. I'm British, and in general it's a bit "odd" to me. I myself would always use "on" for phone numbers. To me, "through" works with "my sister", "the office" - because they're intermediaries, but I can't see a simple number as an intermediary. –
articles - Is it correct to say "via a"? - English Language & Usage ...
Jan 16, 2012 · In these examples, the difference is that telephone without an article refers to the modality of telephony—that is, communicating using the telephone system, whereas a telephone refers to the specific object used to communicate. In this case, one implies the other—if you communicated using a telephone then you must have communicated using ...
How to ask politely for the caller's name on a phone call
Aug 20, 2015 · A simple web search on "telephone etiquette" should turn up an ample number of acceptable options. As initially presented, I think this question is either too broad, too opinion-based, or too-lacking in preliminary research to be answerable here. –
politeness - How should I tell someone "I called you but you didn't ...
Any sentence that implies "you didn't answer", suggests they made an active decision to not pick up the phone.. It's accusatory by natu
word choice - What Is the Real Name of the #? - English Language ...
Apr 5, 2014 · Kerr added this version to his paper. In that letter Carlsen wrote that, in 1963, Don MacPherson of Bell Telephone Laboratories was sent to the Mayo Clinic to train staff in telephony and needed a name for the # button and chose the “octo” + …
punctuation - Standard format for phone numbers? - English …
Jun 8, 2011 · Inside the USA, in business contexts, "(310) 555-1212" is fairly standard. However, it's not very computer-friendly; also, due to area code overlays in a growing number of areas of the US, you must often dial a 1 before the area code in any case, so "1-310-555-1212" is becoming fairly common (on the business cards of people who are more practical than formal, for example.) "310.555.1212" is ...
What are more formal synonyms for "telephone tag"?
Feb 11, 2014 · 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 parties may leave a message on the answering machine or voicemail of the other, and request a call back.