Thumb drive?
Jump drive?
USB key?
USB port? (that one's just wrong, the port's the hole in the side of the CPU, but I've still heard it used for drive)
Flash drive?
Key drive?
Port drive (no, really)
Unlike ipods, walkmen, xerox machines and blackberries bits of technology that made their way into our culture under the auspices of a single brand, we have nothing to call this thing that everyone seems to have come up with simultaneously.
I have never used mine, and the reason is probably laziness but I like to think it's for lack of a noun. Thoughts?
Something underground's gonna come up and carry me
RR
Rebecca Rosenblum...
is a writer and editor who likes a lot of stuff. This is a blog about that stuff, and also her writing. Rebecca is the writer-in-residence at Jean Vanier High School, and was a juror for The Journey Prize 21. Her work has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the National Magazine Award. Her first book of short stories, Once, was published by Biblioasis and was one of Quill & Quire's 15 Books That Mattered in 2008. Rebecca's stories are occasionally seen in Canadian periodicals and her second collection, *The Big Dream,* is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
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We call it USB key in our house, in case you were wondering.
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