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For those of us who grew up with the old phone that plugged into the wall and had a cord, usually a rotary dial, is there a name for it? It is a land-line, but cordless phones are land-based as well.
These days, we have cordless phones, cell or mobile phones.... Heck, I even remember car phones.
But what do you call the older ones? I think from the time of invention, they were just called "telephones," so how does one specify now?
These days, we have cordless phones, cell or mobile phones.... Heck, I even remember car phones.
But what do you call the older ones? I think from the time of invention, they were just called "telephones," so how does one specify now?
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Re: what do you call a telephone?
Fri, March 19, 2010 - 7:31 AMI'd just call a phone a phone, whether it had a dial or buttons.
But your post did make me smile... when I had to think about what I call the phone the first thing I imagined was asking my flatmate (as one does), "Hey, have you seen the phone?"
- Which would have been an absurd question 100 years ago.
PS - there's no real reason a telephone should have been called a telephone, though. There was debate when it was invented if it shouldn't have not latin composition, but germanic instead - thus it would have been (as "television" is fernseher or "far-seer" in German), the "farspeaker."
