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If we have "Plug Tops" why don't we have "Socket Bottoms"?

As per the Subject really. This expression "Plug Tops" has puzzled me for years.


I can understand confusion with D-Sub Connectors where the Plug has a Female Body and Male Pins and vice-versa. Trying to describe a D-Sub Gender Changer is like explaining the Rules of Cricket:-

"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game."


Clive

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  • East riding me.  (Hull, Hell and Halifax, may be very much alike in shape and size if you believe the song, or the old poem upon which it is based but the accent is certainly not)

    So:-

    toven in tkitchn 


    Wires get taffled, kids run through snickets, and door locks have a sneb, gates have a sneck.

    Of course I have been living "daahn saahf"  for so long I am mistaken for an  outlander in both places now.

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  • East riding me.  (Hull, Hell and Halifax, may be very much alike in shape and size if you believe the song, or the old poem upon which it is based but the accent is certainly not)

    So:-

    toven in tkitchn 


    Wires get taffled, kids run through snickets, and door locks have a sneb, gates have a sneck.

    Of course I have been living "daahn saahf"  for so long I am mistaken for an  outlander in both places now.

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