Oh, there is no WAY that is a real word

[bouv]

Telephonically.

Found in a job posting at a prominent medical devices company website. Yet dictionary.com has a listing for it (well, for telephonical, and with the adverb form listed afterword with no definition itself.)

Who knew?

[susan]

Hmm. I knew. My little sister told me about a group of some sort that had "telephonic" in its name by, at latest, 1979, and probably earlier. She used the word "telephonically" at that time.

[Scarlett67]

The M-W Collegiate, 11th ed., has it dating from 1840!

[Alice The Goon]

Thefreedictionary.com, Firefox's extension, has it:

Tel`e`phon´ic`al`ly
adv. 1. By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the telephone.

[capybara]

Are you in denial of "telephony", too?

[Kilvert's Pagan]

Are you in denial of "telephony", too?If you are, the phrase "IP telephony" will seem like some impossible urological event.

[twickster]

I use "telephonic" all the time -- as in "I'll be in telephonic," which is short for "telephonic communication with you soon."

Seriously.

Of course, I'm a Doper, thus weird, QED.

[postcards]

Alexander Haig famously used the term, during, I believe, the Iran-Contra hearings. That was the first use I'd ever heard of the word, and I recall much was made of his use of the term.