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[Avalon]

Would you please settle this doubt? What is correct to say: CALL conference or conference CALL???? I personally think it´s the first one, call conference, but there are some people who insist it´s conference call..Which one is it???? Please help!

[JCrawf]

Originally Posted by Avalon

Would you please settle this doubt? What is correct to say: CALL conference or conference CALL???? I personally think it´s the first one, call conference, but there are some people who insist it´s conference call..Which one is it???? Please help!

In AmE, conference call is correct. Call is the noun and conference is the adjective. Call is usually a verb, as in "I should call my mother this evening."

Another sentence in which call is a noun: The mayor put out a call for volunteers to fight the fire.

or verb:
The mayor called a conference to discuss the city budget.
Regards

[Avalon]

Thanks for the insight, but still, don´t you say video conference? So, I thought it would be more logical to do the same for a conference that is done via phone and thus say call conference...we also have a press conference...so ..besides that, there are some business people who do say a call conference, while others say it´s the other way round, and that´s why I´ve decided to post it here..Let´s see if we get another opinion on this one...

[Harry Smith]

Originally Posted by Avalon

Thanks for the insight, but still, don´t you say video conference? So, I thought it would be more logical to do the same for a conference that is done via phone and thus say call conference...we also have a press conference...so ..besides that, there are some business people who do say a call conference, while others say it´s the other way round, and that´s why I´ve decided to post it here..Let´s see if we get another opinion on this one...

Call coference is better because it's better to pronounce. The main word is "conference" and the word 'call' is just defining what type of conference it is.

[Tdol]

Both are used, but it seems that 'conference call' is much more common (17,900,000 against 323,000 in Google).

[liat]

hi
i think conference call describes the type of call ( call is a noun)
video conference describrs the type of confrence (conference is the noun)
liat

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by liat

hi
i think conference call describes the type of call ( call is a noun)
video conference describrs the type of confrence (conference is the noun)
liat

I agree with you.