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>Feast on this: >http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html A JUAN RAM I  A JUAN MAR I I’m suspecting I’m suffering from bad case of “juanphobia”. A JURA MAN I  I can swear I’m as Spanish as “paella”. MARIJUANA  -stoned...- AURA JAM IN  Anybody there with a Kirlian camera?. Juan Maria.
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Since telephones have pushbuttons now, the use of the word "dial" as the verb for entering a phone number is not appropriate, unless you realize that it is an acronym:
Digitally Initiate Audio Link
(I believe this was the winning entry in an NPR contest to come up with a new verb for "dialing" - the Brits of course have no such problem since they "ring" a number.)
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Fantastic, JMike, I love it. Thanks for that... 
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DIAL=Dial
Or - Is that the point???
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In reply to:
(I believe this was the winning entry in an NPR contest to come up with a new verb for "dialing" - the Brits of course have no such problem since they "ring" a number.)
Actually, I think we do both. Dialling a number is inputting it, while ringing a number is actually making contact. At least that's the best answer I can come up with after a long dark teatime of the soul wondering about it.
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>We do both. Dialling a number is inputting it, while ringing a number is actually making contact. At least that's the best answer I can come up with after a long dark teatime of the soul wondering about it. I agree. We tend to dial the number so that we can ring/call or phone someone. Bingley, judging by your last post I am wondering if you should get out more  . I think you are definitely an "addict" in the making.
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>>a long dark teatime of the soul<<
Isn't there a very similar line in a book that I'm not recalling?
That could almost (God help me) be a country music song title!
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sounds like a mix of eugene o'neill (sp?) and raymond chandler to me, jackie
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>>The long dark teatime of the soul<<
..by Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "The Meaning of Liff", et al.
Essential reading!
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