Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 10:32:53 -0400

From: Bob Lancaster SLANCASTER[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CENTER.COLGATE.EDU

Subject: Relics



My favorite "relic" is telephone terminology. We still say, "Your

phone's off the hook," "Hang up and redial." I've never even seen

an old-fashioned telephone where the receiver had to be hung up on a

hook, except on tv or in movies.



You just don't live in the right plac, Wab. We had one installed in our house in Nova scotia just three or four years ago.

Doesn't vitiate your thesis regarding relics, though.





Bob Lancaster

SUNY-emeritus, English

slancaster[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]colgate.edu