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"Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.

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"Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.

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In my native language, the word for phone is an archaic word for wire. Which is also ironic.

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