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Newguest Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Telephone exchange/inquiries
Hi
Harmless and bumbling Miss Mayfield made her way
into the Post Office, went with a sudden briskness to the
row of telephone booths and shut herself in and asked for
the Yarmouth Telephone Exchange. Does it mean it is a telephone exchange situtated in Yarmouth? And who did she ask for it?
A male voice answered, and immediately she was harmless
and bumbling again. She was a silly old lady who had
been told that a Miss Bedfellow took paying guests in
Yarmouth, but she ’d forgotten the address. Could they
help?Did they have a street directory? She was so sorry to
be a bother.
The male voice said quite kindly that what she needed
was Inquiries. I understand that the man told her that she needs to get in touch with the "information office" not with them?
Inquiries was female, with a brisk voice which said that it had an idea that Miss Bedfellow was on
the telephone; it was a name one noticed, wasn’t it? Well, that is the part I don't get at all! "Inquiries was female" - what does it mean? I suppose that the person working in the information office was female and she had a brisk voice and said to Miss Mayfield that she thought she's speaking to Miss Bedfellow?
Yes, Inquiries was quite right. It read out, in a clear distinct way,
both the address and the telephone number.
Miss Mayfield said some hasty words of thanks, found
some money, gave Miss Bedfellow’s number and waited,
feeling the sweat break out on her neck.
Thanks
Harmless and bumbling Miss Mayfield made her way
into the Post Office, went with a sudden briskness to the
row of telephone booths and shut herself in and asked for
the Yarmouth Telephone Exchange. Does it mean it is a telephone exchange situtated in Yarmouth? And who did she ask for it?
A male voice answered, and immediately she was harmless
and bumbling again. She was a silly old lady who had
been told that a Miss Bedfellow took paying guests in
Yarmouth, but she ’d forgotten the address. Could they
help?Did they have a street directory? She was so sorry to
be a bother.
The male voice said quite kindly that what she needed
was Inquiries. I understand that the man told her that she needs to get in touch with the "information office" not with them?
Inquiries was female, with a brisk voice which said that it had an idea that Miss Bedfellow was on
the telephone; it was a name one noticed, wasn’t it? Well, that is the part I don't get at all! "Inquiries was female" - what does it mean? I suppose that the person working in the information office was female and she had a brisk voice and said to Miss Mayfield that she thought she's speaking to Miss Bedfellow?
Yes, Inquiries was quite right. It read out, in a clear distinct way,
both the address and the telephone number.
Miss Mayfield said some hasty words of thanks, found
some money, gave Miss Bedfellow’s number and waited,
feeling the sweat break out on her neck.
Thanks
Top answer
Newguest the Yarmouth Telephone Exchange. Does it mean it is a telephone exchange situtated in Yarmouth? And who did she ask for it?
- Newguest the Yarmouth Telephone Exchange.
- Does it mean it is a telephone exchange situtated in Yarmouth?
- And who did she ask for it?
- Yes, she asked the telephone operator (an almost non-existent job these days) to connect her with the exchange in Yarmouth.
- Newguest The male voice said quite kindly that what she needed was Inquiries.
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Newguestthe Yarmouth Telephone Exchange. Does it mean it is a telephone exchange situtated in Yarmouth? And who did she ask for it?Yes, she asked the telephone operator (an almost non-existent job these days) to connect her with the exchange in Yarmouth.
NewguestThe male voice said quite kindly that what she needed
was I
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It seems like I understood everything ... or rather I guessed.
Thanks Calif!
Thanks Calif!
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