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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