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Tung Quoc Posted 19 years ago
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home vs house
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00 Would you say 01 font 00 home phone number 02 font 00 or 01 font 00 house phone number 02 font 00 or both? Why? 02 br
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00 Would you say 01 font 00 home phone number 02 font 00 or 01 font 00 house phone number 02 font 00 or both? Why? 02 br
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0 Home phone number - it's idiomatic. 0-
- 0 Home phone number - it's idiomatic.
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0 Home phone number - it's idiomatic. Not everyone lives in a house. 02 br
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00 These days, with more people using their cell/mobile for their home number, I also hear "landline" to mean the one that's wired in the house. 0-
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00 These days, with more people using their cell/mobile for their home number, I also hear "landline" to mean the one that's wired in the house. 0-
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00 Very rare. I can imagine it only in circumstances when we're really talking about the inhabitants of a house (not an appartment building), and when there's a central phone number assigned to the house, in contrast with individual numbers assigned to the rooms/offices/persons within. 02 br
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00 Very rare. I can imagine it only in circumstances when we're really talking about the inhabitants of a house (not an appartment building), and when there's a central phone number assigned to the house, in contrast with individual numbers assigned to the rooms/offices/persons within. 02 br
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0 Yes, it's making an assumption that everyone lives in a house. 02 br
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00 These days, I mostly hear landline for this anyway. 0-
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00 These days, I mostly hear landline for this anyway. 0-
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