Many cash registers require the cashier to push one button if you're paying by credit card and another button if you're paying by debit card.
Problem: the words sound very similar, so there's a high likelihood that the cashier will mishear you when you tell them how you're paying. Then they'll have to re-input the transaction, wasting everyone's time and messing up their numbers.
Solution: words for "credit" and "debit" that are completely different. Like one is "plop" and the other is "oogly-boogly".
I suppose, on an individual level, we could state the name of the credit card (e.g. "Mastercard"), but that always makes me feel like I'm in a commercial.
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