Dictionary of American Regional English

Technology

Technology

PP1 What do you call the moving stairway that takes you to higher floors in a building?

PP2 What do you call the cubicle you stand inside, while moving from floor to floor inside a building?

PP3 Different names for phones, including joking names:

PP4 What do you call a machine that produces paper copies of documents?

PP5 What do you call the device that changes the channels on the TV?

PP6 The things you put into or over your ears to listen to music:

PP7 How do you refer to someone you don’t know in person or don’t know well, but have corresponded with on social media? “She’s a(n) __________.”

PP9 Names for a USB mass storage device, including joking names:

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