"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:06:49 +0300, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

That seems to be the situation everywhere, Arny.
Is it normal in the US to refer to RCA connectors as jacks?
That seems open to confusíon. What do you call the
TRS plug which we refer to as a jack?

We might loosely refer to it as a jack plug. But not as a jack. A
jack is a socket. A plug goes into a jack. I think this is the
terminology both sides of the Atlantic?

The original terminology was for plugs and jacks. The word "socket" doesn't
seem to have been used. But personally I'd never use the word "jack" except
for the sockets that take switchboard type plugs, either 2 or 3 pole (never
seen the point of calling 3-pole ones "TRS") or the miniature versions of
the same. Anything else just has plugs and sockets IMO.

David.