Say it with me, "RE-MOTE"

The thing with the buttons that changes the TV channels wirelessly from a distance, what's that called? A FRICKIN REMOTE (or just remote, if you prefer, I can even accept "changer"). IT IS NOT A CLICKER. Almost nobody alive today has seen, used, or even knows what a channel changing "clicker" is. The Zenith Space Command remote, introduced in 1956, operated by hammers physically striking bars, making "clicks". That was a clicker. Nothing else is, it's an inaccurate name, and hearing otherwise intelligent people say it bugs the hell out of me and hurts my ears. It's harder to pronounce "clicker" than "remote", too, unless you're Elmer Fudd, so given the laziness of the average person, I don't understand why they use it.

Don't go claiming that it's a phrase that's entered the lexicon as a generic term, like "dialing" a phone, even though there haven't been dials for years. At one time, EVERYONE alive used dial telephones, they all knew why it was called dialing, the term was standard. A very small portion of the population had TV "clickers", so almost everyone who ever used the term has no idea WHY THEY'RE EVEN SAYING IT.

I will give a pass to people who actually had a clicking remote, but the term must die with you, don't infect anyone else.