Re: [OT?] Seeking for sample words in Yi, Cree, Lao, Sinhala, Tamil

Doug Ewell wrote:

>
> > - sheelpoon: no clue... Sounds English but...
> > -it is an English word but quite popular, try again
>
> OK, with all those explicit clues from Suzanne, "cell phone" is starting
> to seem very likely.

Why would the American rather than the British term have caught on
there?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...