Is “plugging out” electronic devices an American expression?





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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".

    – Mixolydian
    9 hours ago






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    Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".

    – Kalmino
    7 hours ago






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    One word: nope.

    – only_pro
    7 hours ago






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    As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.

    – Michael Hampton
    3 hours 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




















  • 21





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

    – Mixolydian
    9 hours ago






  • 2





    Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".

    – Kalmino
    7 hours ago






  • 3





    One word: nope.

    – only_pro
    7 hours ago






  • 1





    As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.

    – Michael Hampton
    3 hours 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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  • 21





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

    – Mixolydian
    9 hours ago






  • 2





    Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".

    – Kalmino
    7 hours ago






  • 3





    One word: nope.

    – only_pro
    7 hours ago






  • 1





    As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.

    – Michael Hampton
    3 hours ago














  • 21





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

    – Mixolydian
    9 hours ago






  • 2





    Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".

    – Kalmino
    7 hours ago






  • 3





    One word: nope.

    – only_pro
    7 hours ago






  • 1





    As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.

    – Michael Hampton
    3 hours ago








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

– Mixolydian
9 hours ago





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

– Mixolydian
9 hours ago




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2





Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".

– Kalmino
7 hours ago





Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".

– Kalmino
7 hours ago




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One word: nope.

– only_pro
7 hours ago





One word: nope.

– only_pro
7 hours ago




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As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.

– Michael Hampton
3 hours ago





As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.

– Michael Hampton
3 hours 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'.







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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
    9 hours ago






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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
    8 hours ago











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

    – SamBC
    8 hours ago






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    @SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.

    – Colin Fine
    7 hours 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'.







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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
    9 hours ago






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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
    8 hours ago











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

    – SamBC
    8 hours ago






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    @SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.

    – Colin Fine
    7 hours 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





















  • 4





    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
    9 hours ago






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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
    8 hours ago











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

    – SamBC
    8 hours ago






  • 1





    @SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.

    – Colin Fine
    7 hours 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
    9 hours ago






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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
    8 hours ago











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

    – SamBC
    8 hours ago






  • 1





    @SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.

    – Colin Fine
    7 hours ago














  • 4





    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
    9 hours ago






  • 3





    @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
    8 hours ago











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

    – SamBC
    8 hours ago






  • 1





    @SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.

    – Colin Fine
    7 hours 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
9 hours ago





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
9 hours ago




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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
8 hours 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
8 hours ago













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

– SamBC
8 hours ago





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

– SamBC
8 hours ago




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1





@SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.

– Colin Fine
7 hours ago





@SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.

– Colin Fine
7 hours ago


















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