How would you rank them according to the frequency of use in speech?
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(1) I am an old man who seldom uses a cellular telephone. So I cannot
answer your question.
(2) I wanted to point out, however, that this word is an excellent
example of how a word in English becomes shortened.
(3) I assume it started out as "cellular telephone."
Since people love to speak fast, it was obvious that people
were not going to keep saying the whole term. So maybe
(I am only guessing) it progressively became:
cellular phone
cell phone
cellphone
cell (I think -- only
think -- that most people feel that "cell"
is really
too short!!!)
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P. S. Are people even going to start referring to it as their
c?