UK phones

[Sarah]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Joe Bento" <joseph at k...> 
wrote:
> --
> 
> Do telephones in the UK now have the alpha characters assigned to 
> each number as American phones do?
> 
 I dont *think* 
> UK telephones had letter combinations assigned to the numbers.
> 
> Joe

They did actually, and as a child growing up I could never understand 
why there were letters with the numbers.  Nobody has rotary phones 
anymore (although when we first moved to this house 7 years ago we 
did have one), all modern "touch-tone" phones and mobiles have the 
letters too - texting is very big over here so spelling the words on 
the JKR site was no problem (once we knew what words we needed to 
spell!!)
Sarah xx