• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Also a plug is on the cable

    Maybe this is an American English thing, because to me the plug is the socket. The two words are synonyms. Like I’d talk about the electricity plug in the wall.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      Americans often call the wall plate the plugs, but technically in electeical hardware ordering catalogs the wall end is a female receptacle, and the cord end is a male plug