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Re: Re[2]: While we're on the topic of words . . .
Subject:Re: Re[2]: While we're on the topic of words . . . From:Doug Montalbano <D=Montalbano%GMP%Chiron -at- LARRY -dot- CHIRON -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 3 Feb 1994 13:40:55 PST
Gary Dettmers, referring to unenlightened wretches using "intercom" as a
verb, asks:
When did the name for an inanimate object, used for room to room
communications, become an active verb in the English language?
While I can't answer that specific question, I might point out that that's
already what we do with the word "telephone" or "phone".
Eh?
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