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Article #1445Re: Tingles from power supply
From: Sylvia Else
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:24
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:24
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F Murtz wrote: > Sylvia Else wrote: >> Eeyore wrote: >> >>> What Sylvia had is commonly called a 'wall wart'. >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_wart >> >> Though in truth, I'd never heard the expression before I read it in >> this group (in another thread). May be it's a US term. I note that the >> WIKI says it's slang. >> >> Could be my protected up-bringing, though. Perhaps Phil has something >> to say on this subject, since he's in Aus' too. >> >> Sylvia. > At least it is a very apt descriptive term which only applies to those > plug packs whereas I have never heard any one in the world other than > one ng poster call them dongles I agree that dongle is not the appropriate term, and I also have never heard a plug pack, wall mart, whatever, referred to a dongle. Well, except in this thread, of course, by the person who did. Sylvia.
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