25 January 2013

phone or telephone?

They started writing about this technology shortly after the first patent in 1876
but it took about 30 years for the abbreviation "phone" to get started and until
1990 before it overtook "telephone"
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=telephone%2Cphone&year_start=1868&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=2&share=
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