From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of the word
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:56:43 GMT
Date: 2001-11-26T18:56:43+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <LfwM7.38232$xS6.62450@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C021EA6.4221485E@brighton.ac.uk
In article <3C021EA6.4221485E@brighton.ac.uk>, John English says...
>
>I think Americans call them cellphones, but in the UK they're "mobiles"
>(or as they become ubiquitous, just plain "phones").
"Cell phone", yes. Its two words. Its short for "cellular phone". The companies
selling them like to shorten it to just "cellular" (as they sell non-phone
functionality as well), but you don't hear people on the street using that one
much.
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-21 22:28 OT: Meaning of the word "free" Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-21 23:57 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-11-22 12:06 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-23 5:51 ` AG
2001-11-23 11:49 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-23 12:03 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-25 1:15 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-11-26 15:31 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-26 18:10 ` Wes Groleau
2001-11-22 1:44 ` OT: " Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-22 9:43 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-11-24 0:34 ` John English
2001-11-24 10:42 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-24 14:30 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-11-24 19:00 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-24 20:00 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-11-25 10:41 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-25 12:07 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-26 18:13 ` Wes Groleau
2001-11-25 13:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-11-25 22:43 ` David Starner
2001-11-26 9:31 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-11-26 10:51 ` John English
2001-11-26 18:56 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-11-26 20:26 ` OT: Meaning of the word Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-27 11:37 ` John English
2001-11-28 0:45 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-22 10:55 ` OT: Meaning of the word "free" Preben Randhol
2001-11-22 10:53 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-22 18:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-11-23 12:07 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-22 17:46 ` Julio Cano
2001-11-22 20:38 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-11-23 20:24 ` Julio Cano
2001-11-24 3:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-24 0:36 ` John English
2001-11-22 21:29 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-24 0:30 ` John English
2001-11-24 11:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-24 17:57 ` Robert Dewar
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2001-11-26 2:19 tmoran
2001-11-28 21:45 ` OT: Meaning of the word Ted Dennison
2001-11-28 22:23 ` Preben Randhol
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