Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Paolo Bellutta Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Answering Telephone Message-ID: <11193@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Aug 90 04:49:22 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 15 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 586, Message 1 of 11 contact!ndallen@uunet.uu.net (Nigel Allen) writes: >I think Alexander Graham Bell once proposed "hoy-hoy" as the >appropriate way to answer the phone. In Italy the typical answering phrase is "pronto" (= ready). Paolo Bellutta I.R.S.T. vox: +39 461 814417 loc. Pante' di Povo fax: +39 461 810851 38050 POVO (TN) e-mail: bellutta@irst.uucp ITALY bellutta%irst@uunet.uu.net