>>>I use the touchpad--but only on airplanes :-)
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>>This one gets me every time... in my language, you are IN an airplane if you're traveling. You get ON a plane only to repair it, or a pull a James Bond like stunt. I just imagined someone on a wing trying to type while the screen keeps flapping down and the mouse dangles wildly.
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>And people in New York wait "on line," while everywhere else in the US, we wait "in line" and the British "queue up."

We "stand in a queue", waiting to "come on queue" (i.e. wait for our turn).