"Graham." wrote in message
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And I use the proper names having leant them
for the flying and amateur radio licenses.

I can remember when it was just amateurs, pilots, police, and travel
agents. Also, to a lesser degree, the twenty-four hour clock.

Of course things can go too far, once a young girl gave me a cryptic
password over the phone, and pronounced "#" as "hashtag"

Yeah, I usually call @ snail, quite a few in computing do.