英语词汇the li-on is busy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the li-on is busy
词源	the li-on is busy. This immortal intonation was first used at the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Co.’s old Nassau ex- change in New York City, by a Brooklyn-born operator around 1882. Dialing, Touch-Tone phones, cell phones, and the decline and fall of Brooklynese have made the words rare, possibly obsolete.
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