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"an Ameche, slang for a telephone since the early 1940s, after movie actor
Don Ameche played the lead in the 1939 movie The Story of Alexander Graham
Bell."
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Barb
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill & Chris Strickland" <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:52 PM
Subject: [or-roots] OT - other names for the telephone


> If this list can tolerate one more off topic post, I am looking for
> another name for the telephone, now rather obsolete and obscure -- it is
> a name sort of like calling a radio a 'Marconi', but of course that is
> wireless, and I'm talking about the old-fashioned wired telephone.
>
> If you know the answer to the question, you will know what I am talking
> about ...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Strickland
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