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Gary Tait wrote:
US visitors used to laugh at our variety of sockets, domestically. Now
we have only one, and they have the variety.

Not really. Domestically, for GP recepticals, there is only the the one
basic standard with a few minor variation, all backwards compatible to
the parallel blade two prong plug.

I can see that a modern three pin socket might accept older plugs, but the
other way round?

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