Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: This is she.

Gosh!
I just called a customer in Tennessee (I'd give an arm and a leg to
see The South by the way, but I digress) and asked to speak to...
let's call her Rosalind (that's her name, by Jove). By sheer chance
she was the one to answer the phone, and to that effect she said "This
is she. How can I help you?". In all my English-speaking life I've
only heard and used, in such cases, the simple expression "Speaking".
What about this? This is she, this is he? Is it Rosalind's,
Nashville's, Southern, or am I just too provincial? 
Lurve,
-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
http://web.tiscalinet.it/alfabeto_auschwitz/

 Nashville's, Southern, or am I just too provincial?
It sounds dreadfully formal to me, but maybe they talk like that in the
Deep South.
I once phoned an office in France and asked for Mme. somebody or other.
A voice answered "Elle est à l'appareil", and couldn't understand why I
said "that's all right, I'll wait till she's finished".
Mary
(P.S. Very, very belated birthday greetings!)
-- 
Bad day:  Your birthday cake collapses under the weight of all the
candles.

Lurve,
Or is it still Rosalind.... blonde...? :=)
Sky

candles.
Try baking it with metal! :)))
Sky

Dear Isabella,
       Sorry, but it sounds correct to me. I would answer the same way, and I
am from Cambridge, Massachusetts, not the South.
           Tanti saluti,
               Harriet

 It sounds dreadfully formal to me,
Dear Mary,
Sigh.
This being the case, I am certain it explains why it is that I, and those of
my household are accustomed to answering the telephone in just such a
manner. As is, it so happens, at least one young lady employed by Messieurs
Coutts and Co., to whom I had occasion to speak but the other day. Alas, her
name, was not Rosalind which might perhaps explain ......something, though
it is not yet clear to me, what precisely.
Sigh again.
Formally yours,
--
I remain, as always,
Bambi
dtb
Bring out the oil lamps

 Lurve,
Isa, I'm in California and here we use it all the time.
bye
arianna
Sent via Deja.com 
http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.

       Sorry, but it sounds correct to me. I would answer the same way, ...
Dear Harriet,
I certainly wasn't implying it wasn't correct. I was in no position to
judge that, as I'd never heard the expression, not even once, in about
20 years of "working&playing" acquaintance with the English language. 
It surprised me and I enquired about it; I am grateful to all of you
for clarifying it-- and also about the fact that, for once, the Brits
and the Ams seem to agree that it belongs to both worlds, if rather
formally or old-fashionedly so :-)
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Isa, I'm in California and here we use it all the time.
Ma i californiani non contano.
Siete strani di natura.
; )))))))
saluti,
Peltio

(P.S. Very, very belated birthday greetings!)
Very, very appreciated!


 candles.
Capperi! Non oso pensarci

,

Ma guarda un po' che screanzato e' questo!  Ma non ti vergogni?
ciao


Ma guarda un po' che screanzato e' questo!  Ma non ti vergogni?
adesso vado a cercare un po' di notizie curiose che riguardano i
californiani.
(cose del tipo tute e caschi in kevlar per non invecchiare,
psicoterapeuti per armadilli e filo interdentale a tavola [*])
Tu fai lo stesso con i milanesi e poi vediamo chi è più strano.
: )
ciao,
Peltio
[*] ok, ok, le ho viste nei film queste cose. Ma dove si fanno i film?