double pronged outlets, how come they are never plugged in wrong?

Question

So in England we have the ground prong so our cables are all the same, however I know in the states and other places they don’t, so how come no damage is caused if the positive and negative are the wrong way around?

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Answer 1

Even in the UK you’ll very frequently see IEC C7 connectors which are an ungrounded and non-polarized AC connector that looks a bit like a figure of 8. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320