I want to pose one question to all of you…
Does anyone else called the right button on a mouse a third button sometimes? e.g. press third button, rather than right click.
Or is it just me?
Posted by: annmucc | December 16, 2008
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Haha I generally call it the third button
But Im ur sis hihi
By: The bestest Fenech Twin on December 16, 2008
at 6:51 pm
@ Cec: I am happy with your reply even if you’re my sis. Cos this will make MCA see that it is not just me
By: annmucc on December 16, 2008
at 7:03 pm
stramba naqa
By: mina on December 16, 2008
at 10:00 pm
@ Mina: what’s stramba? saying third button?
By: annmucc on December 16, 2008
at 10:02 pm
Well we say 3rd button…because when we started using computers (u were probably still not yet born
)…mice (or mouses or whatever) had 3 buttons not 2…and at school we used to call it the third button 
…all Ms Margaret (i think but not so sure) fault 
By: The bestest Fenech Twin on December 16, 2008
at 10:06 pm
Wiki: Mouse (Computing): Buttons
Since mice can have a number of buttons it doesn’t really make sense to talk about the third IMHO.
By: Michael on December 17, 2008
at 12:04 pm
@ MCA: Well, as the same link you gave says: ‘The prototype that popularised the idea of three buttons as standard’…So it seems there is some truth in my idea that three buttons is standard, makign saying third button for right button as not so unheard of…probably the computers at school ahd 3 buttons, which made the teacher saying third button correct, and which we took up and used elsewhere.
By: annmucc on December 17, 2008
at 12:09 pm
mice nowadays have 2 buttons
By: marilyn on December 17, 2008
at 11:42 pm
@ Marilyn: maybe now yes, but in the past no
And you know that people use words from the past that are no longer really relevant – are l-idjomi u hekk 
By: annmucc on December 18, 2008
at 8:03 am