>>>>> US: ATM
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>>>>Bank machine
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>>>In UK only bank staff would call it ATM - Cashpoint, Cash machine, hole in the wall
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>>Visiting home I was surprised that these things are finally taking root there. And they have a new word for it: bankomat.
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>What an ugly, dated word, like laundromat, or those old self-serve cafes from the 60s, where everything was behind a perspex lift-up door, you know, I can't remember now - servomat or someat like it.

It's still better than any TLA. It will stick.

While we're at the ATM subject - why are these guys called "tellers"? Aren't they supposed to specifically not tell anyone what business you had with them?