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'LIVEWIRE?' · 15th Dec 2019, 10:05 am

Slightly OT, maybe, but earlier posts referring to Record Players and the like fail to mention that the (once)common English term 'Gramophone' is actually a misnomer. The coorct word should, IMHO, be 'Graphophone' as in the name of the UK Columbia Record Label, which was owned by the 'Columbia Graphophone Company. Like the word 'Phonograph', it of course means 'write-sound', a precise description of what a record player does (more correctly I guess, this should apply to what a record maker does.

15th Dec 2019, 10:05 am	#69
'LIVEWIRE?' Rest in Peace Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: N.W. Oxfordshire(Chipping Norton) Posts: 7,306	Re: Television set? Slightly OT, maybe, but earlier posts referring to Record Players and the like fail to mention that the (once)common English term 'Gramophone' is actually a misnomer. The coorct word should, IMHO, be 'Graphophone' as in the name of the UK Columbia Record Label, which was owned by the 'Columbia Graphophone Company. Like the word 'Phonograph', it of course means 'write-sound', a precise description of what a record player does (more correctly I guess, this should apply to what a record maker does.