Is it correct to write the telephone abbreviation as Tel when the . . . I think it's hard to argue that "Tel" is not correct given that a mobile phone is a telephone The only reason it should even matter to the reader is if calls to mobile phones cost more than calls to landline phones in your country, and even then if you're only providing one number they don't have any choice but to use that number
Cell phone? Cell? Mobile phone? Whats the correct term? In Australia, it has traditionally been a "mobile" - never a "cell" (unless you are deliberately trying to sound American!) However, it is increasingly becoming just a "phone", as landlines continue to disappear from households The one clarifying term might be "my phone" - this would guarantee it to be a mobile phone, rather than a landline
What are more formal synonyms for telephone tag? Here is Wikipedia's definition: Phone tag is a phenomenon in which two parties attempt to contact each other by telephone, but neither is able to get a hold of the other for a conversation Both
vocabulary - Is plunger a familiar word for part of a phone . . . 2 I was looking for the name of the button on a telephone that you push to hang up On older phones where the receiver sits horizontally over two buttons, I've seen them called "plungers " Are people familiar with this term? Is there another term? Is the single button also called a "plunger?"