Comment on Why do Americans answer the phone with "Gopher"?

noisehound@lemmy.villa-straylight.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say that at the start of a phone call but it’s common when communicating with two-way radios like: “Alex for John, over” “Go for John, over” “<whatever Alex needs to say to John>” I mostly heard that when working in large retail stores, usually the walkie talkies have an end-transmission sound que so we didn’t actually have to say ‘over’ at the end

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