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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Answering Telephone
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In article <11193@accuvax.nwu.edu> bellutta@irst.it (Paolo Bellutta)
writes:

> In Italy the typical answering phrase is "pronto" (= ready).

	I was taught that the proper phrase in Spanish for answering a
phone is "Diga me", literally "Speak to me", but, at least from what I
have observed in Mexico, the most common phrase is just "Bueno",
literally "Good".  Probably different Spanish speaking countries have
different idioms.


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