Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!telecom-request From: clements@bbn.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Two Word Exchange Names Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 05:42:31 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 186, Message 8 of 14 > The Moderator writes about HYde Park (in Chicago?) and that some > people dialed HP when they should have dialed HY. Worse than that: In New York City there is an area of Staten Island called Saint George (or "St. George"). It was also the name of the local phone exchange. Should it be dialed: SG - Saint George ST - ST. george SA - SAint george The right answer is "SA". Bob Clements, K1BC, clements@bbn.com, in Cambridge MA, home of (617)KIRkland, UNIversity, ELIot, TROwbridge, and neighbor of (617)CONgress, COPley, LAFayette, KENmore, ASPinwall, MONument, etc., etc... [Moderator's Note: Then too, poor spelling ability had a lot to do with people getting the wrong number. (312) BOUlevard frequently got dialed as BULevard, meaning the caller got a 288 number instead of a 268 number. DEArborn became DEErborn, etc. PAT]