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Is “plugging out” electronic devices an American expression?


American pronunciation of constituentAmerican Accent or American Intonation?Emphatic constructions in American EnglishAmerican English Idiom “Out of this world” and Sentence StressBritish “Packet” = American “X?”school lunch in American Englishsubtlety in English expressionlecture theater- an American expression?American equivalent of British “takeaway”Is this text American or British English? Please, I need the American version






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Are these valid in American English as opposed to "unplug".




Plug out the charger from the wall.



I plugged out my TV.



I found my radio plugged out.




I started hanging out with some guys of Jamaican descent who were born in Canada and I noticed that they talked about "plugging out" their electronic devices rather than "unplugging" them. Recently I've begun to hear the same expression from non-Jamaicans.



Anyone have any idea how widespread this is?










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    FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".

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Are these valid in American English as opposed to "unplug".




Plug out the charger from the wall.



I plugged out my TV.



I found my radio plugged out.




I started hanging out with some guys of Jamaican descent who were born in Canada and I noticed that they talked about "plugging out" their electronic devices rather than "unplugging" them. Recently I've begun to hear the same expression from non-Jamaicans.



Anyone have any idea how widespread this is?










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  • 5





    FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".

    – Mixolydian
    1 hour ago













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Are these valid in American English as opposed to "unplug".




Plug out the charger from the wall.



I plugged out my TV.



I found my radio plugged out.




I started hanging out with some guys of Jamaican descent who were born in Canada and I noticed that they talked about "plugging out" their electronic devices rather than "unplugging" them. Recently I've begun to hear the same expression from non-Jamaicans.



Anyone have any idea how widespread this is?










share|improve this question
















Are these valid in American English as opposed to "unplug".




Plug out the charger from the wall.



I plugged out my TV.



I found my radio plugged out.




I started hanging out with some guys of Jamaican descent who were born in Canada and I noticed that they talked about "plugging out" their electronic devices rather than "unplugging" them. Recently I've begun to hear the same expression from non-Jamaicans.



Anyone have any idea how widespread this is?







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    FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".

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    FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".

    – Mixolydian
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FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".

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FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".

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Wiktionary defines the expression plug out as Irish:




(Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.




From The Daily Edge : 13 words you'll never hear outside of Ireland...




Another uniquely Irish phrase is 'to plug out' as in ' plug out the telly'.







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    The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.

    – Colin Fine
    1 hour ago











  • @ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.

    – SamBC
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  • (I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)

    – SamBC
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Wiktionary defines the expression plug out as Irish:




(Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.




From The Daily Edge : 13 words you'll never hear outside of Ireland...




Another uniquely Irish phrase is 'to plug out' as in ' plug out the telly'.







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  • 2





    The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.

    – Colin Fine
    1 hour ago











  • @ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.

    – SamBC
    18 mins ago











  • (I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)

    – SamBC
    17 mins ago















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Wiktionary defines the expression plug out as Irish:




(Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.




From The Daily Edge : 13 words you'll never hear outside of Ireland...




Another uniquely Irish phrase is 'to plug out' as in ' plug out the telly'.







share|improve this answer




















  • 2





    The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.

    – Colin Fine
    1 hour ago











  • @ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.

    – SamBC
    18 mins ago











  • (I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)

    – SamBC
    17 mins ago













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Wiktionary defines the expression plug out as Irish:




(Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.




From The Daily Edge : 13 words you'll never hear outside of Ireland...




Another uniquely Irish phrase is 'to plug out' as in ' plug out the telly'.







share|improve this answer















Wiktionary defines the expression plug out as Irish:




(Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.




From The Daily Edge : 13 words you'll never hear outside of Ireland...




Another uniquely Irish phrase is 'to plug out' as in ' plug out the telly'.








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    The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.

    – Colin Fine
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  • @ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.

    – SamBC
    18 mins ago











  • (I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)

    – SamBC
    17 mins ago












  • 2





    The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.

    – Colin Fine
    1 hour ago











  • @ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.

    – SamBC
    18 mins ago











  • (I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)

    – SamBC
    17 mins ago







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The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.

– Colin Fine
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The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.

– Colin Fine
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@ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.

– SamBC
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@ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.

– SamBC
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(I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)

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