Subject: OT: Answering the Telephone (Paging Hieronymus and any Brit)
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Posted on: 2016-04-08 03:18:00 UTC

I recently ran across this funny video on YouTube: "On the phone [Surviving Germany]".

While it is clearly comedic in nature, is there any truth to his claim that Brits used to answer the phone with their phone number and that Germans answer with their name? Given that there is a German and many Brits on the Board, I'm sure than I can get an answer straight from the source.

And to all of you non-Americans out there (and we've recently learned that there's quite a few of you), do any of you answer the phone in any way other than the standard "Hello" or "[last name] residence"?

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