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[krazykitkat]

If any are still awake...
Do you say phone book or telephone directory or something else?

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[mazily.livejournal.com]

phone book. (ah, insomnia, how i love thee. it's only three am here, after all...)

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
And I love your insomnia so much, I'd like to take it from you.

[keladryb.livejournal.com]

Phone book.

Sometimes we say 'yellow pages' or 'white pages' depending (yellow pages have the commercial listings, white have residential). Like, if you need a restaurant/plumber/etc., you might say 'look in the yellow pages' but you wouldn't tell someone to 'look in the white pages' for a person. White pages tend to be used simply to explain which section of the phone book you have/are using.

And this is an example of why I should not ramble on cold medicine.

Phone book.

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)
And yes, we have yellow pages and white pages too.
Some things are universal.

[sweetly-savage.livejournal.com]

What keladryb said.


Almost exclusively say "Yellow Pages" if it's a business we're looking for. (At least in my neck of the woods.)

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

My neck of the woods too :)
Thanks.

[docfraiser8.livejournal.com]

phone book....

Or "Where the fuck is that thing?!"</small

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Heh!

[sternel.livejournal.com]

What they all said. Also, if it's obvious in context, half the time we'll drop 'phone' and just say "book" -- "You don't know the plumber's number? They're in the book, just go look it up."

Telephone directory is, to me, the sort of thing I get handed on my first day at a new job, with a list of extensions.

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)