Re: tel/phone
- From: Steve Ketcham <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:51:41 -0400
In article <1188564852.934507.4220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Troy Steadman <troysteadman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 31 Aug, 13:17, "iwasaki" <pianofortefo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Which do you use, "tel" or "phone", as a shortened form of "telephone",
in a business card or an address book?
In Japan, most people use "tel". I have an impression that
Americans tend to use "phone", and I also have been told so,
but I'm not so sure about it after I checked all the cards
I have (though at least the most interesting one is a card
of a Romanian, in which he wrote "tel" in his own language
and "phone" in English).
--
Nobuko Iwasaki
(remove the second forte for e-mail)
I just went through a pile of about 50 or 100 cards. (I'm in the US,
specifically Massachusetts. The cards are mostly from the US and
Canada, with a few from the Far East, South America and Europe.)
Many (perhaps a plurality) just give the number without a word in front
of it. After all, (508) 123-4567 is pretty clearly a US phone number.
About as many have "tel" in front of the number. One has "T", another
has a tiny picture of a telephone.
The rest have more than one number, so they say things like "office" or
"fax" or "home" or "cell".
One group of cards says "Phone (03)xxxx-xxxx Direct". They belong to
staff members of the Tokyo office of a US company. Go figure!
And one says "Garfield 1-xxxx". It's for a San Francisco restaurant.
The card is no more than 10 years old.
Steve
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