How native speakers pronounce “phone”

No, she's good at some things. But if she's cooking, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling --

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If I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in, I get annoyed.

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What about travel? Take a cell phone picture of your credit cards, your driver's license, your passport,

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Every piece of information coming out of your computer or phone is a single thread. At any given moment, you are holding

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their flip phones for smartphones, and the phone-based childhood began. Their

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Instead of keeping to myself and doomscrolling on my phone or checking my email, I'd try to have a conversation with her,

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Waymo: Almost there. Don't forget your phone, keys or wallet. SK: And sons, don't forget your sons.

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is not as dangerous is to actually let humans be humans. Be distracted, make your phone call, do the thing you want to be doing.

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It's something we need to notice that we are already in. When did you stop remembering phone numbers? There was no moment you decided to forget them.

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but a technology we all use every day is learning to hear our thoughts. The Face ID system used to unlock your phone is being repositioned into headphones and glasses,

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past the portraits of people who didn't look like me, I got a text on my phone, an email from Ben.

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When we respectfully disagreed, he respectfully responded by tweeting my cell phone to 30 million followers on Twitter.

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and now they have a real product. And almost all of it was just done via the phone. In China,

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to repair the facial paralysis I suffered after the attack. I picked up my phone and saw: The Taliban had taken control of Afghanistan.

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And the kinds of friends that I spoke to, they don't just have a weekly phone call. They're friends like these.

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Number one: Don't multitask. And I don't mean just set down your cell phone or your tablet or your car keys or whatever is in your hand.

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but check out mentally, right? Like, you’re hanging out with people and you’re on your phone, or that would look like me just standing in the hallway

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when you sit down on your couch, take out your phone. Before you start scrolling, send a text message.

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If you're feeling really ambitious, after this talk, go outside and make a phone call. I know, you're not a phone person,

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after this talk, go outside and make a phone call. I know, you're not a phone person, but I promise you this is going to be

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after getting laid off? I'm not a phone person either, but I was on the phone with everyone I knew:

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I'm not a phone person either, but I was on the phone with everyone I knew: friends, old clients, former colleagues,

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Sometimes after all the introspection and the dopamine dips, and the strategizing, and the exploration, and the phone calls, you're a little exhausted.

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or were you chatting through audio? And audio could be a phone call, it could be video conferencing with the camera off.

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that you're conversing with. If you're on your phone or scrolling through your computer,

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how about either sending a nice one to someone who needs it or stowing your phone? Anybody procrastinate, you've got pressing to-dos

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Putting time on the calendar to learn a new language, putting your phone in airplane mode while you play with your kids so that work doesn't expand like a gas and fill all of your unoccupied space.

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in our tiny two-room apartment when suddenly the phone began to ring. So I stumbled across the darkened space

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We can't even hear what that friend is saying. Somebody's cell phone is ringing. "Sorry, I've got to take this."

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as it will more than once in every life, when suddenly the phone does begin to ring in the middle of the night, or nurses race into the room to feel for a pulse,

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then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real. Your phone is ringing right now, I’m sure. Cable news is reporting some breaking development.

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There's the superiority theory. You're the guy on the phone, not on the other end. The incongruity theory.

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person you're with by looking at your phone is rampant these days it happens in counseling sessions in

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playgrounds in bedrooms and on dates when handed a phone that gives us constant access to an endless supply of

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are chatting together a visible phone keeps the conversation superficial it doesn't have to ring or vibrate or

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It hit me really hard. Every night I would go back to our old apartment and just get on my phone and read and reread our old text messages.

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Today, Luddite is a broad-spectrum term for technophobes. But the Luddites weren't your mom using a landline instead of a cell phone or sending you Hallmark cards with little words underlined.

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So, they'll hand her their credit card without even looking up from their phone. And while she's saying this, I'm realizing I've done that.

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I'd write emails, send notes, make phone calls, visit people to thank them for their role in my coffee.

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but you just made my day." And it was like an anti-crank phone call. And it didn't just affect her, it affected me.

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And then six months later, we were on the phone and we got into a terrible fight.

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I've essentially answered these questions every day. I do it at 9pm on my couch, on my phone, and it literally takes me 90 seconds.

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So what I did, I kid you not, I went into a dark room in the office right after my calls, and I pulled out my phone and I journaled about all the ways in which I am defective

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about a week without talking to anyone, and forever without checking my phone. (Laughter)

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So because there's no point to our future, it's all hopeless, we're instead indulging in things like phone addiction, gambling addiction, porn addiction, game addiction.

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And that's our attention. In a society that profits from you being stuck on your phone, giving your attention to art is a rebellious act.

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The other day, I figured out that if you spend three hours a day on your phone from the age of, I think it was 15,

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to the average age of death, 79, you will have spent 10 years straight on your phone. No sleeping, just 10 years straight on your phone.

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you will have spent 10 years straight on your phone. No sleeping, just 10 years straight on your phone. And three hours a day is,

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I don't want this. I'm going to call the restaurant and read them my credit card over the phone. CA: I could choose, but someone else might say,

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meeting one-on-one with Trump she's had a phone call she hasn't gone to Mara Lago that was wise get her ducks in a

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um is when we did this Harris poll uh we were asking kids about their phone use as well as their independence and it

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something that I think is good, but it's an alternative to the phone based childhood that is worrisome.

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And when she was on the bus, her phone stopped working and she was like, "Oh no, you know, where do I get

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

And the lady said, "Well, my phone works." "Oh, you're you know, you missed your

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

have a band-aid, you know, if you have a phone, you you do have to help them." And I don't think of that as

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irritates me to no end is when i get that phone call and it's usually from a white man

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and wind up with only blisters and bruises; when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you want to save

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and my personal liability insurance. And I got an agent on the phone. "Hello? You've reached an agent."

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before the newspaper lands in the vestibule like a grenade, the phone shrills, the computer screen blinks and glares awake. There is this hour:

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I traveled 11,000 miles over 13 months to seven different countries without a plan or a phone or a credit card. Just 3,800 dollars in traveler's checks,

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Or my personal favorite, you pick up the phone, like it’s the 20th century, and you say, “Congratulations,

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Man: Can't you just do it? You should be able to handle it. Take over the car. You don't need my phone. Woman: I don't have an option.

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from our own bodies and from our curiosities. Because nowadays, when we have a question, we don't wait and phone a friend. We friend our phones.

3 Habits to Practice Curiosity — and Escape Your Phone | Nayeema Raza | TED · TED

Have that fight at a dinner party instead of playing footsie with your phone. Ask something to someone you thought you couldn't learn from,

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based on verbal instructions, like opening this drawer or unplugging a charged phone. Or making sandwiches, using bread, lettuce, tomatoes

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CA: I mean, you're part of Google. Was there a phone call saying, "Uh, Demis, what did you just do?" DH: You know, I'm lucky we have very supportive,

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is that we won't need to view this extra digital content through our mobile phone. It'll actually emit from the smart materials

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with bad news. She dropped her cell phone into the toilet. Anyone here done that before?

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And she panicked because, like for many of us, her phone is one of the most used and essential tools in her life. But, on the other hand, she had no idea how to fix it,

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So think about it: what would you do? What do you really understand about how your phone works? What are you willing to test or fix?

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that almost 80 percent of smartphone users in this country have never even replaced their phone batteries, and 25 percent didn't even know this was possible.

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to study their fundamental quantum mechanical properties. But even I wouldn't know where to start in terms of testing elements on my phone if it broke.

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and I have somebody to talk to? Either I can call someone on the phone or it's somebody I live with. I can literally feel my body calm down.

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who are most important to you. A regular phone call or a coffee every Saturday with someone you really want to be sure you see regularly.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

You don't even have to have a particular reason. Now I want you to take out your phone or whatever device you use, right now, and send that person just a little note.

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all the bad qualities, all the pet peeves, and then keep it on your phone. (Laughter)

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or the faintest whiff of nostalgia in a session, I go, "Phone, please." (Laughter)

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which you will never dig yourself out of ever, the phone calls you have to return, and that important meeting across town,

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and it suddenly exploded one day when we got a phone call from Bono, the Edge and Pearl Jam, who all agreed to headline our concert.

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