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cloud_ctrl  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Before Maw Bell - Rural Telephone Systems in the West

I always thought it was "Ma Bell" as in "Mother Bell". "Maw" makes it sounds like a cavernous toothy mouth intent on devouring everything in its path, which on reflection actually seems curiously appropriate.