TELEPHONE MANNERS.
Exasperated telephone subscribers wh-j. unable to "'get through" as quickly as they would like, indulged in haish language towards the girl clerks, have been cleverly brought to book by the telephone administration (says a message from Copenhagen to the "Daily Mail"). At first it was found difficult to identify th* offenders, so a gramophone apparatus was installed at tho central exchange. The moment a subscriber began to use unseemly language, the girl would have it recorded by the gramophone. Some of the worst offenders were summoned to the director's office, and when they denied their hasty remarks they were convicted by an exact repetition in their own voice on the gramophone. Telephone manners in Copenhagen have as a result greatly improved.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13683, 17 March 1910, Page 6
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