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Our kid's musical plush uses a USB-rechargable battery instead of accumulators (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by sonovebitch@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 83 points 2 months ago (17 children)

I know it's proper usage of the word accumulators, but I've basically never heard anyone refer to them that way.

Are you a part of the Borg by any chance, OP? 🙂

[–] sonovebitch@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Sorry, English is not my mothertongue. How would you reformulate the title in proper English?

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Disposable batteries?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They might not even be disposable batteries, they could be rechargeable batteries.

Generally people just say the size of the battery like "AAs". Or if you're weird the type like "alkaline batteries" or "nimh"

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I was trying to ask a Spanish speaker if their cell phone battery store had D batteries. It was very confusing. They ended up calling someone (I assume their boss) who spoke English for me to ask.

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