"We didn't have time to phone-call anybody." [NT]

[Joel S. Berson]

Is this a [what-do-you-call-it]?  Like "rotary phone" was needed when
keyed phones arrived.  What other "adjectives" besides "phone" are
now attached to "call"?  "cell-call"?  "page-call"?  "IMS-call"?  Etc.

Joel

At 11/9/2012 11:24 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>"he phone-called" gets 22.5K Googits.
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>Benjamin Barrett
>Seattle, WA
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>On Nov 9, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Subject:      "We didn't have time to phone-call anybody." [NT]
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