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Bookmark or Share- "Call me through/at/on this number" - English Language & Usage Stack ...@Mohammad: It may be that "through [telephone number]" is more common in the US. I'm British, and in general it's a bit "odd" to me. I myself would always use "on" for phone numbers. To me, "through" works with "my sister", "the office" - because they're intermediaries, but I can't see a simple number as an intermediary. –
- 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.
- politeness - How should I tell someone "I called you but you didn't ...Any sentence that implies "you didn't answer", suggests they made an active decision to not pick up the phone.. It's accusatory by natu
- How to ask politely for the caller's name on a phone callA simple web search on "telephone etiquette" should turn up an ample number of acceptable options. As initially presented, I think this question is either too broad, too opinion-based, or too-lacking in preliminary research to be answerable here. –
- Cell phone? Cell? Mobile phone? What's the "correct" term?This term distinguishes the device in a bit different dimension; it describes the capabilities as opposed to older handheld devices (smartphones are the devices that combine a microcomputer and a telephone). So, strictly speaking, if you want to be specific to different types of devies you should use different terms in different cases.
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