[ SECRET POST #6045 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6045 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Explain American things to a non American thread.

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't a US thing. This is a 'anywhere with phone pads' thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_keypad

Re: Explain American things to a non American thread.

[(Anonymous)]

"The use of alphanumeric codes for exchanges was abandoned in Europe when international direct dialing was introduced in the 1960s, because, for example, dialing VIC 8900 on a Danish telephone would result in a different number to dialling it on a British telephone. At the same time letters were no longer placed on the dials of new telephones.

Letters did not re-appear on phones in Europe until the introduction of mobile phones, and the layout followed the new international standard ITU E.161/ISO 9995-8."

Re: Explain American things to a non American thread.

[(Anonymous)]

letters still existed on british phones, but for practical purposes they were ignored and certainly not used for promotional words

one place where their legacy lingers is landline area codes; kings lynn is 01553, or KL3, for instance, but almost nobody makes that connection

(NE2, 01632, is a redundant code for newcastle that's now used as the uk version of the us 555)

Re: Explain American things to a non American thread.

[(Anonymous)]

Having words in place of a phone number is 100% an American thing. Doesn't matter that we definitely know about letters on keypads, words as a stand-in for the actual number are just not used outside the US as far as I've seen.

Re: Explain American things to a non American thread.

[(Anonymous)]

It's probably not as common as in the US, but it's definitely used in my country (Australia).