night: Good point. I would distinguish between mouse and drive as follows: Mouse is ok because the gadget looks like a mouse. Drive, however, is a poor choice for something with no moving parts

By 2024 any word at all. misspelled or not, will have come to mean anything the writer wishes it to

At present: A drive drive drive drive is the flight of a ball in a baseball game, the outcome of which results in an automobile trip by the all-time home-run champion to a venue in which culturally-acquired concern for the proliferation of a keychain semiconductor memory is sponsored through the profits of a lumber mill whose continued existence depends upon the legalization of dredging a shallow river intended to convey logs downstream for further processing

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