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The origin of the word "telephone" is ...

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Answer: A. Greek

The word telephone originally comes from two Greek words: tele, meaning far, and phone meaning sound. It may have been a word the Greeks used to describe shouts from one Athenian hilltop to another. The Germans later used the word telephon to mean megaphones, which were created in 1796.

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