{"id":8809,"date":"2013-06-25T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T10:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8809"},"modified":"2013-06-25T10:35:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T10:35:21","slug":"hop-on-a-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8809","title":{"rendered":"Hop on a call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/phone.gif\" wdith=\"200\" width=\"117\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 15px;\" alt=\"Photo of a phone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An email I received yesterday contained the sentence &#8220;Would be happy to hop on a call to discuss should you change your mind.&#8221; The expression <strong>to hop on a call<\/strong> particularly caught my attention as it&#8217;s not one I&#8217;ve come across before. In this context I would have said &#8220;to give you a call&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Have you come across this expression before? Do you use it yourself? If not, how do you refer to telephonic communication?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard\/used:<br \/>\n&#8211; to phone\/call\/ring sb<br \/>\n&#8211; to call sb up<br \/>\n&#8211; to give sb a call\/bell\/ring\/buzz<\/p>\n<p>There are a few slang words for phone, including dog (and bone) &#8211; rhyming slang; and blower. Do you have any others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email I received yesterday contained the sentence &#8220;Would be happy to hop on a call to discuss should you change your mind.&#8221; The expression to hop on a call particularly caught my attention as it&#8217;s not one I&#8217;ve come across before. In this context I would have said &#8220;to give you a call&#8221;. Have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}