Re: Anyone a satisfied TalkTalk Broadband customer in Perth &Kinross?

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:24:40 +0100, Peter Crosland passed an empty day by
writing:

>>> I use Plusnet and have been basically very pleased with them. They
>>> went through a rocky patch a year ago but things have greatly
>>> improved.
>>
>> Same here, the rocky patch was probably more than a year ago though.
>>
>>> terrestrial phone number
>>
>> Who has an extraplanetary one?
>
> You win the pedant of the day award. As most people know the term means
> those numbers that start with 01,02 or 03 that are charged at normal
> rates rather than the much higher ones for numbers starting 07,08 or 09.
>
> Peter Crosland

I don't agree. Terrestrial tends to mean of the land, and in context you
could take it to mean a land line. Non geographical numbers (and mobiles
which you could probably say are not 'terrestrial') are referred to as
either 'Non geographical' or 'premium'. I do wish people would stop
making things up that have little bearing on reality.

As for Pedant of the day - well as Mr Crossland holds that award for
eternity it is impossible to reassign it.




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