英语词汇number please的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

number, please. Telephone operators had been advised by Thomas Edison to greet callers with ahoy instead of hello, but operators fell into the habit of opening with a curt “What number?” However, according to Stuart Berg Flexner’s Listen- ing to America (1982), by 1895 the city manager of the Chicago Telephone Company, one J. W. Thompson, issued the following instructions to the company’s chief operator in a memoran- dum: “In answering calls the query ‘Number Please?’ spoken in a pleasant tone of voice and with rising inflection must be in- variably employed.” Within 10 years all of the Bell System fol- lowed suit.

词汇	number please
词源	number, please. Telephone operators had been advised by Thomas Edison to greet callers with ahoy instead of hello, but operators fell into the habit of opening with a curt “What number?” However, according to Stuart Berg Flexner’s Listen- ing to America (1982), by 1895 the city manager of the Chicago Telephone Company, one J. W. Thompson, issued the following instructions to the company’s chief operator in a memoran- dum: “In answering calls the query ‘Number Please?’ spoken in a pleasant tone of voice and with rising inflection must be in- variably employed.” Within 10 years all of the Bell System fol- lowed suit.
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