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==Etymology of "to plug"== In his book ''Red Herrings and White Elephants'', the English language researcher Albert Jack writes that Plugge partially financed Radio Normandy by receiving payments to play and promote records, which is probably the origin of the verb to "plug" a record.<ref>{{Citation | last = Jack | first = Albert | title = Red Herrings and White Elephants | place = Great Britain | publisher = Metro Publishing | pages = 127 | date = 2004 | isbn = 1-84358-129-9}}</ref> However, the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' contradicts this suggestion, dating the first use of "plug" in the sense of "promotion" to as early as 1900. [[Rupert Vansittart]] played Plugge in the 2008 film ''[[The Bank Job]]''.
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