Is there?

Is someone there?

a way of requesting to talk to someone in particular over the telephone. (This is not just a request to find out where someone is. The someone is usually a person's name.) Tom: Hello? Mary: Hello. Is Bill there? Tom: No. Can I take a message? Tom: Hello? Mary: Hello. Is Tom there? Tom: Speaking.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Anisim	-	Russian
Hildred	-	English
Laurits	-	Danish, Norwegian
Hal	[hæl]
'Avishay	-	Biblical Hebrew
Ili	-	Hungarian