Timeline for If we can “give someone a call”, why can't we “give a phone call”?
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| Oct 31, 2023 at 1:00 | vote | accept | Mari-Lou A | ||
| Oct 30, 2023 at 9:16 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I like the edit :) | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 8:36 | history | edited | Astralbee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 30, 2023 at 7:50 | comment | added | Evene | @Mari-LouA. I don't think you can, but I don't know why not. It's just not idiomatic. Not in my dialect anyway. Maybe because 'to' implies motion toward, which doesn't happen in a phone call. | |
| Oct 29, 2023 at 21:04 | comment | added | Astralbee | @Mari-LouA yes they are, and no there isn't - although the latter sounds odd... perhaps because it sounds like a job description where 'making calls' sounds more business-like. | |
| Oct 29, 2023 at 21:03 | history | edited | Astralbee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 29, 2023 at 20:40 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The word (tele)phone is generally implicit / unstated, not explicit. | |
| Oct 29, 2023 at 20:35 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Aren't "Give me a [phone] call" and “Give someone a [phone] call” the same thing? Is there any reason why we can't say "I give telephone calls to customers"? | |
| Oct 29, 2023 at 19:59 | history | answered | Astralbee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |