With style, we are back to what I call ‘phone register’ today. Or to vocabulary, in a general sense. We are starting with a common mix-up, which pits ‘port’ against ‘point’.
The small hole in the phone into which the charger is plugged is not a ‘charging point’; it is the ‘charging port’. Calling it otherwise thus amounts to an error, though a popular one:
I need to take my phone to a repairer. The charging point is bad. (Wrong)
I need to take my phone to a repairer. The charging port is bad. (Correct)
The phone isn’t charging. I have the fear its charging point is damaged again. (Wrong)
The phone isn’t charging. I have the fear its charging port is damaged again. (Correct)
Note that it’s not only the phone that has a charging port. Also called a charger port, it is the same small opening on some
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