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I was reading a novel and rolled my eyes when the author described ammo crates of "clips" for Uzis. While I can understand some terminology sticking around because it only ceased making logical sense a few years ago, how the heck is "clip" still commonly and mistakenly used to refer to a magazine? I thought clips went the way of the dodo in the 60's and it seems as if people should have stopped using the term by now for the same reason no one uses "carburetor" as an example of a car part. Because anything using them is an antique, and anyone who used them in combat is in a retirement home.

I was reading a novel and rolled my eyes when the author described ammo crates of "clips" for Uzis. While I can understand some terminology sticking around because it only ceased making logical sense a few years ago, how the heck is "clip" still commonly and mistakenly used to refer to a magazine? I thought clips went the way of the dodo in the 60's and it seems as if people should have stopped using the term by now for the same reason no one uses "carburetor" as an example of a car part. Because anything using them is an antique, and anyone who used them in combat is in a retirement home.

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"Clip" is a short word. "Magazine" is a long world. Given a choice, people will always favor the use of a short word over a long word. To most people "clip" simply means something that holds the bullets.

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Clip is shorter than magazine, yet mag, while syllabically on par with clip, is shorter than clip by letter count. Some semantic anachronisms are a hard habit to break. When's the last time you purchased Tin Foil? When's the last time you said it? Gen pop ignorance and linguistic laziness brought us here.

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I still "dial" my phone. Haven't had a "dial" phone in... 40, 50 years? Back before we could own our phones. Yea, remember that, anyone?

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Has it been that long? I still used one in the 90s.

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Touché! And speaking of, when's the last time you heard a phone "ring?"