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Old June 26th 03, 11:33 AM
Zilla
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GSM is a standard used for wireless...

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"bomba" wrote in message
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Dave Stocker wrote:

Speaking of "cell phone", what do you Brits call it? Over here, Gerry

calls
it a "Handy" for some inexplicable reason.


Never quite worked that out either.

I am starting to use this stupid
Denglish word in place of "cell phone".


Assimilation has begun...

Please tell me that it is used
somewhere by some native English speaker - and I don't care if it a only

one
thong wearing guy in the South Pacific.


Nope, only restricted to Germans. In England it's just plain old
'mobile', whereas in France, they're called 'GSM' (pronounced JSM).

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