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Originally Posted by Stuart C

They are called Automatic Teller Machines because they are Automatic, and the clerks in the bank who would normally give you your money are called Tellers.

Surely that's only in America though. As you stated over here we call them bank clerks, I used to know someone that did that for a job and he never described himself as a teller.

Originally Posted by Stuart C

Now, this is one area in our language where the Yanks actually have it correct, and we don't, generally. The phones are actually called Cellular Telephones (hence O2s original name, Cellnet).

the phones themselves are also mobile and can be carried around as a mobile device

Originally Posted by Stuart C

That's probably because most international companies work in one currency, then convert to local currencies when needed which makes things easier from a management point of view because it lowers the chance of errors due to fluctuations in currency markets. For instance, I used to do export documentation for Pfizer (the makers of Viagra, amongst other things), and, in Europe and the UK, they worked exclusively in Euros, but converted to other local currencies at the point of sale.

i don't object to companies doing it as the US is suge a huge market for companies but when i'm reading a English paper it's not asking too much to expect to print the currency in the English format seeing as that's what their readers will use.