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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Sep 2021

    Not sure if there is a tinier hill to die on but... Here's mine: There's nothing "easy" about these "phone words". Just write out your actual phone number, dear (9XX) CALL-NOW.pic.twitter.com/33PP1ikHb8

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      1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Sep 2021

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted RAGEPATH

        I'm whining about the ones where this isn't the case, not the above example!https://twitter.com/ragepath/status/1440402535655763971 …

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        RAGEPATH @ragepath
        Replying to @zeynep
        It's.... printed right below the word? I mean, I guess I get the category of gripe. But ever example I encounter in the wild is exactly like this one - number directly under mnemonic.
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      2. Patrick Heemstra‏ @patrick23dingen 21 Sep 2021
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        This is so 2000!

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      3. argyriou‏ @argyriou15 21 Sep 2021
        Replying to @patrick23dingen @zeynep

        This is so 1960!

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      2. Natasha Loder‏Verified account @natashaloder 21 Sep 2021
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        Honestly, I think the US is the only country that does this, and when I lived there I thought it was really daft.

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      3. David Blandford‏ @dblandford 21 Sep 2021
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        In Australia lots of organisations have numbers 1300 HEALTH for example.

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      1. Allison‏ @allisons 21 Sep 2021
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        Especially when no one is seeing these anywhere but on a smart phone that can parse the number as a phone number without the stupid phone words but not with them.

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      1. argyriou‏ @argyriou15 21 Sep 2021
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        My cousin from Lawn Guyland was visiting CA and called 411 to get a phone number. The number started with 825, but the 411 operator pronounced it as "H-U-5", which my cousin tried to dial as 485. (I got the same operator once, but I knew that people didn't use letters in CA.)

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      2. FeralQuokka‏ @FeralQuokka 21 Sep 2021
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        Thank you!!!! I suspect they are still hangovers back from the old texting on the Nokia 3310 days when I probably could instinctively just dial the number

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      3. argyriou‏ @argyriou15 21 Sep 2021
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        This is older than cell phones. I saw numbers like this in the 1970s. To make it even more complicated, exchanges were named, and they would spell out the name, followed by the number, like KLondike5-1212.

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      1. object Object‏ @ReadyToDial 21 Sep 2021
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        India hasn’t had this concept so someone seems to have decided to try now

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