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Something I've noticed (anecdotally) over the past few years in the USA is the switch from the term 'cell phone' to 'mobile phone'. Here in the UK we've used th
by gpmcadam 12y ago
Something I've noticed (anecdotally) over the past few years in the USA is the switch from the term 'cell phone' to 'mobile phone'. Here in the UK we've used the term 'mobile phone' exclusively I think for the past 20 or 30 years.
It's not as clear as other examples, but you can certainly see a visible trend in the last decade: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=Mobile%20phone.Cell%20Phone http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=Mobile%20phone.Cell%20...
- CamperBob2 12y agoKind of amusing to see the archaic term "wireless" start to recover its popularity around 1990.