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Thread #53615   Message #827149
Posted By: Amos
15-Nov-02 - 03:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Old London telephone exchange names
Subject: RE: BS: Old London telephone exchange names
When I was less than five, we had a RHInelander-5 number in New York. When we moved to CT it was POrter-2-3882 forever, until they took away our exchange's name and gave it a dang number instead. I can only guess with the burgeoning number of subscribers they were getting down to AXolotl and QIpu exchanges and didn't have enough imagination to import foreign words with double-consonant beginnings! :>)


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