telephone

Can you imagine how weird it must have been to be talking into a little round plastic thing and hearing your mum on the other end when you knew in your head that she was 1000 miles away on the other side of the country? Today we think nothing of using a telephone or merrily chatting away to someone who is on the other side of the planet.
Do you know the origin of the word ‘phoney’? Can you guess?
Yes, it does come from the early days of the ‘telephone’. It refers to the general distrust of phone conversations, they were considered ‘phoney’ conversations. Today we don’t think twice to trust and rely upon our phone conversations but we still use the word ‘phoney’ to mean ‘false or fake’.
Today our closest experience to this is e-mail. Of course e-mail is not a ‘real conversation’ - or is it?