On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Daniel Scuka wrote:
> It was Andrea, I think, who told me that Germans refer to their mobile
> phones as "handy." Is that correct? What do other Europeans call their
> mobile phone?
Finnish word (one of the many, but AFAIK the most used) for
mobile phone in spoken language is "kännykkä" which comes
from the word "käsi" = "hand" in english. Official, grammatically
correct word would be "matkapuhelin".
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Received on Mon Mar 19 00:56:06 2001