Tele or Telly?
Jan 9th 2010, 4:44 am
#1
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Tele or Telly?
Just reviewing the threads here, and I notice that bob's popular thread is called "Tele." I think it should be "Telly." What do others think?
Jan 9th 2010, 4:51 am
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Re: Tele or Telly?
I think it should be TV! (Tee Vee). But if I were still 'Up North' in UK, I'd say it should be 'Telly'. But then, it's really a spoken slang term, not a word you would write down, so 'how' it's written seems immaterial.
Jan 9th 2010, 5:03 am
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Jan 9th 2010, 12:11 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
Telly
Jan 9th 2010, 12:24 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
Telly - not that I'm calling Bob gay or anything.
Jan 9th 2010, 1:02 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
Definitely 'telly'. Sorry Bob 
Jan 9th 2010, 3:20 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
Telly !
Jan 9th 2010, 3:38 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
It doesn't matter.
Jan 9th 2010, 6:10 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
"****ing idiot box"
Jan 9th 2010, 6:14 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
going off at a tangent here: what do you call the telly remote control?
Most people are probably just going to say "er, I call it the remote control, or just the remote", but for some reason I've always referred to the remote as "the buttons". A very good friend of mine back in Britain told me his whole family refer to the remote (for reasons lost in family history) as the "crapswitch", which I rather like.
Most people are probably just going to say "er, I call it the remote control, or just the remote", but for some reason I've always referred to the remote as "the buttons". A very good friend of mine back in Britain told me his whole family refer to the remote (for reasons lost in family history) as the "crapswitch", which I rather like.
Jan 9th 2010, 6:18 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
going off at a tangent here: what do you call the telly remote control?
Most people are probably just going to say "er, I call it the remote control, or just the remote", but for some reason I've always referred to the remote as "the buttons". A very good friend of mine back in Britain told me his whole family refer to the remote (for reasons lost in family history) as the "crapswitch", which I rather like.
Most people are probably just going to say "er, I call it the remote control, or just the remote", but for some reason I've always referred to the remote as "the buttons". A very good friend of mine back in Britain told me his whole family refer to the remote (for reasons lost in family history) as the "crapswitch", which I rather like.
Jan 9th 2010, 6:23 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
going off at a tangent here: what do you call the telly remote control?
Most people are probably just going to say "er, I call it the remote control, or just the remote", but for some reason I've always referred to the remote as "the buttons". A very good friend of mine back in Britain told me his whole family refer to the remote (for reasons lost in family history) as the "crapswitch", which I rather like.
Most people are probably just going to say "er, I call it the remote control, or just the remote", but for some reason I've always referred to the remote as "the buttons". A very good friend of mine back in Britain told me his whole family refer to the remote (for reasons lost in family history) as the "crapswitch", which I rather like.
Jan 9th 2010, 6:28 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
The American family I'm staying with call it "the channel changer", bugs me for some reason. "The remote" is so much more efficient.
Jan 9th 2010, 6:35 pm
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Re: Tele or Telly?
going off at a tangent here: what do you call the telly remote control?
Most people are probably just going to say "er, I call it the remote control, or just the remote", but for some reason I've always referred to the remote as "the buttons". A very good friend of mine back in Britain told me his whole family refer to the remote (for reasons lost in family history) as the "crapswitch", which I rather like.
Most people are probably just going to say "er, I call it the remote control, or just the remote", but for some reason I've always referred to the remote as "the buttons". A very good friend of mine back in Britain told me his whole family refer to the remote (for reasons lost in family history) as the "crapswitch", which I rather like.