According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
PHONOGRAM
phonogram
(noun) any written symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
phonogram (plural phonograms)
(linguistics) A character or symbol (grapheme) that represents a sound, as opposed to logograms and determinatives.
(legal) An audio recording, regardless of physical format.
Anagrams
• monograph, nomograph
Source: Wiktionary
Pho"no*gram, n. Etym: [Phono- + -gram.]
1. A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound. Phonograms are of three kinds: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
2. A record of sounds made by a phonograph.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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