Re: tel/phone

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:17:12 +0900, iwasaki posted:

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).


In Canada, "tel:"; is usually used only as a written abbreviation, and
only as a header when you want to supply a phone number with no other
context, as on a business card or in an advertisement.

"Phone" is used in speech or when writing something other than a
header indication that a phone number follows.

Tel: 444-3456
The phone is ringing.
You can reach be by phone at 444-3456.

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