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dear Turns, here in Massachusetts we also had a string of different names for the phone company. Originally, for the longest time it was New England Telephone. Then, in the 80’s, New York Telephone bought New England Telephone. N.Y.T. claims it was a merger. The joke at the time was that they took the NEW from NEW ENGLAND and the YORK from New York and named the new, larger company New York Telephone – it was that for a while, then became NYNEX …. then Verizon. Verizon sounded like such a strange name the first time I heard it, but today it is just part of the lexicon of corporate names.