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What is the history of the letters on a phone dialing pad or rotary dial?
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The letters used to correspond to the telephone switch you were calling for example, if my phone number was in Portland, and the number was TIGARD5-1234, you'd dial the first two letters of TIgard as the numbers, which are 84. You'd end up dialing 845-1234. Since no places started with Z or Q, those letters weren't added until later. 1 never had any letters associated, and 0 was for the operator.
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