From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,811674947553ef14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-26 10:56:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <5LHYDjy2Mcfg@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3BFC5861.D3E2B270@acm.org> <3bfcc8a9$0$15836$626a54ce@news.free.fr> <3BFEEB0B.E1C0E709@brighton.ac.uk> <9toatb$4bn$1@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> <3C021EA6.4221485E@brighton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of the word Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:56:43 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:56:43 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16996 Date: 2001-11-26T18:56:43+00:00 List-Id: 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.