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From: Nigel Allen <contact!ndallen@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Answering Phrase (was: Crank Calls)
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Date: 17 Aug 90 07:54:00 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 578, Message 12 of 13


Henry Troup writes in <Volume 10, Issue 572, Message 5 of 10):
 
 > On another track, when I lived in the U.K. we were taught to
 > answer the phone with the number.  ....
 > How does the rest of the world answer the phone?  
 
I answer my phone with my name.
 
When I shared a house with three other people, I would answer the
phone "Sixteen Major", since the house was 16 Major Street, Toronto.
My housemates would just say "hello".
 
Canadian government offices will often answer the phone bilingually:
"CRTC [in English], bonjour". (Actually, the Canadian Radio-television
and Telecommunications Commission = Conseil de la radiodiffusion et
des telecommunications canadiennes has the same acronym in English and
French.)
 
I think Alexander Graham Bell once proposed "hoy-hoy" as the
appropriate way to answer the phone.