CAR, ACCORDING TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH Dictionary, is ‘a road vehicle powered by a motor (usually an internal combustion engine), designed to carry a driver and a small number of passengers’. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the mobile phone has a different definition. ‘A phone that does not have wires and works by radio, that you can carry with you and use anywhere.’ Maybe they haven’t been to Wales. Anyway, there’s also a distinction for a smartphone. ‘A mobile phone that also has some of the functions
JETHRO BOVINGDON
Feb 15, 2023
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