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Old March 31st 12, 09:19 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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In message , at 19:41:35 on Fri, 30 Mar
2012, Graham Nye remarked:
You aren't aware that mobile phones use a cellular network?


I expect he is. Guy is pointing out that you are cross-
posting to two newsgroups where we call such devices
mobiles.


Some people call them mobiles, innit. But plenty of people still talk
about "mobile phones" and to pretend you don't know that the US-English
for a mobile phone is a cell phone is simply ludicrous.
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Roland Perry