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What (who) is POPCORN - definition

TIME OF DAY VOICE SERVICE
POPCORN; 767-2676; TIM the speaking clock; Telephone lady; Telephone woman; Time woman; The Telephone Lady; The Phone Lady; Phone woman; The phone woman; The time lady; The time woman; Fröken Ur; Froken ur; Speaking clocks; 767-....; Alicia Roland; POP-CORN; Froeken Ur; Froken Ur; Telephone voices; Time announcement; BT Speaking Clock; Time number; Time and temperature; 767-xxxx
  • date=October 2018}} prior to the introduction of automated equipment, October 1937
  • Newspaper notice (1918) warning telephone subscribers that New England Telephone & Telegraph Company operators will soon refuse to provide time of day on subscriber request.
  • Mechanical speaking clock at the [[Victorian Telecommunications Museum]]
  • Assmann digital speaking clock at the [[Victorian Telecommunications Museum]]

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¦ noun maize of a variety with hard kernels that swell up and burst open when heated and are then eaten as a snack.
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Popcorn is a snack which consists of grains of maize or corn that have been heated until they have burst and become large and light. It can be eaten with salt or sometimes sugar.
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AI system built on POP-2. "The POPCORN Reference Manual", S. Hardy, Essex U, Colchester, 1973.

Wikipedia

Speaking clock

A speaking clock or talking clock is a live or recorded human voice service, usually accessed by telephone, that gives the correct time. The first telephone speaking clock service was introduced in France, in association with the Paris Observatory, on 14 February 1933.

The format of the service is similar to that of radio time signal services. At set intervals (e.g. ten seconds) a voice announces (for example) "At the third stroke, the time will be twelve forty-six and ten seconds……", with three beeps following. Some countries have sponsored time announcements and include the sponsor's name in the message.

Pronunciation examples for POPCORN
1. Popcorn, I mean everyone knows popcorn.
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2. The popcorn?
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3. The popcorn?
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4. I got popcorn.
I Will Teach You to Be Rich _ Ramit Sethi _ Talks at Google
5. So that's popcorn.
Modernist Cuisine - The Art and Science of Cooking _ Nathan Myhrvold _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of POPCORN
1. Materials: 1 large batch unbuttered popcorn A popcorn wreath puts a fun twist on the tradition of using popcorn and cranberry chains to decorate a Christmas tree.
2. The other half got stale popcorn that was 14 days old. (The two–week old popcorn was perfectly safe, just a bit funky.) After the movie, they measured how much popcorn the moviegoers had eaten, and how they thought the popcorn tasted.
3. A popcorn wreath (see story below) puts a fun twist on the tradition of using popcorn and cranberry chains to decorate a Christmas tree.
4. Even when the popcorn was disliked, people still ate 34 percent more popcorn when eating from a large container than from a medium–size container.
5. Also known as popcorn workers lung, because it has turned up in workers at microwave–popcorn factories, the disease destroys the lungs.