英语词汇yellow pages的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	yellow pages
词源	yellow pages. The classified ad sections in telephone books which are printed on yellow paper in contrast to the white pages of the rest of the phone book, have been so called since 1906 when the Michigan State Telephone Company of Detroit first included such pages in its directory. Yellow pages has led to such recent coinages as the Silver Pages, telephone numbers of particular interest to older people or “senior citizens.” Yellow pages used to be a trademark of the Bell Companies.
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