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Originally Posted by M0FYA Andy
One phrase which annoys me, I was reminded on George Clarke's TV programme last night when he used it, is to refer to a normal household mains socket as a 'plug socket'.
No, it is simply a socket.
Does he call the bit on the end of the appliance's wire a 'socket plug'?
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You may jest, but I remember doing an exercise during my apprenticeship in which we used a lathe to turn the various parts to make a car cigarette lighter plug. The drawings (to BS308, of course) were all carefully labelled 'Socket Plug'! Us apprentices had a good laugh about it, at the expense of our rather pompous instructor...
Chris