Re: Alexander Graham Bell Day (7 March)

 Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí Márta, scríobh Ross Clark:  > AGB (1847-1922) was the son of Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) "teacher
 > and researcher of physiological phonetics...author of numerous works on
 > orthoepy and elocution...creator of Visible Speech" (Wiki).
 >  > Well, the telephone certainly changed some things about our use of language.
“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic/the time of year/the GDPR/the phase of the
moon/the anniversary of the death of Gauss, our call volumes are higher than
normal. Please hold.”
 > Apparently it was Thomas Edison who established "Hello" (or "Hello?") as the
 > standard English thing to say when answering the telephone.
 >  > And this day? Oh, on 7-3-1876 AGB was granted a US patent for an "Improvement
 > in Telegraphy".
 >  > Three days later it was: "Mr.Watson, come here, I want to see you."
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