You don't have to resort to eBay to find mention of 'plug tops' (click here to see that TLC use the word/phrase)There are some on ebay. It must be true!
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You don't have to resort to eBay to find mention of 'plug tops' (click here to see that TLC use the word/phrase)There are some on ebay. It must be true!
Whilst you're at it, you could try asking for a lamp for your table lamp (or standard lamp, or headlamp or whatever)humm its everywhere. ... I'll have to try it out in every day conversation. ... "Can you plug my laptop plug top in please, over there"
Maybe ... I mean the lamp which plugs into the top of the lamp.Did you mean a lamptop, sir?
This seems to be one of the more ridiculous bits of electrical jargon which somehow arose. Who on earth invented this 'plugtop' thing - and, more to the point, WHY?If professional people on here don't know the difference between a plug and it's top I'm not surprised counter staff don't know either.
Interesting. If that's true, why the apparent yo-yo (at least in my experience) of terminology? You're suggesting that 'plug top' was in common usage at some point in the distant past. However, I really don't think I heard the term at all between ~1960 and ~1990 (maybe later), but, since then, it seems to have been coming back into vogue in some circles again!It dates back to when wall 'plugs' were first offered and standards were rather lacking, so you bought the plug (which went on the wall) and the plugtop as a matching pair, probably attractively turned in cocus wood.
[I presume you mean "a separate 'plug bottom' "]Even if true, that doesn't explain why the whole thing is now called a 'plug top' because we don't have to buy a separate 'plug top'.
I have a bit more time for that one (well, I do when it's written as two words!), since there are all sorts of sockets, not necessarily for 'plugs' to go into - the socket of a 'ball and socket' joint (whether anatomical or engineering) being one for a start.And then there's "plugsocket"…..![]()
And I'm sure you'd have to try even less hard to find people selling 12V lighting products and calling them low voltage.There are hundreds, I've just picked a few here...
You will take care over the ordering of the words in that term, won't you....I presume you mean "a separate 'plug bottom' "
These are plug sockets.I have a bit more time for that one (well, I do when it's written as two words!), since there are all sorts of sockets, not necessarily for 'plugs' to go into - the socket of a 'ball and socket' joint (whether anatomical or engineering) being one for a start.
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