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  1. 19th August 2017, 10:01 AM #41
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh View Post
    I understand.

    My pet annoyance (one of the many, really) is they call autumn fall but don't call spring sprout.
    And insist on referring to aluminium as aluminum.
    And .............
    I actually looked into the aitumn/fall thing once, and it's the English language that changed!
    Back when the US was still a colony the English called the session 'fall'

    But I agree, we've lost a lot of ism's and expressions, but that's language, ever evolving.
    One for me in the trades, and I've mentioned this before is 'tension wrench' vs 'torque wrench'

    I'm fighting a rearguard action with tension wrench, but I'm losing!
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    ...and then the final battle of the "shifter" vs the "monkey wrench"
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  3. 19th August 2017, 12:22 PM #43
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    Shifter = adjustable wrench
    monkey wrench = pipe wrench
    Simple
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  4. 19th August 2017, 02:23 PM #44
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    I don't know where it comes from but
    "Bro"
    Should be taken out & shot!
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  5. 19th August 2017, 05:22 PM #45
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    Quote Originally Posted by jonesfam View Post
    I don't know where it comes from but
    "Bro"
    Should be taken out & shot!
    Then we'd have no Kiwi bro's left, bro !
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  6. 19th August 2017, 06:20 PM #46
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    Quote Originally Posted by trog View Post
    Shifter = adjustable wrench
    monkey wrench = pipe wrench
    Simple
    You mean stilsons?
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  7. 19th August 2017, 06:37 PM #47
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    Yep , same thing another name
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  8. 19th August 2017, 07:17 PM #48
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    So what is this?

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    An old shifter?
    If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
    http://www.aulro.com/afvb/signaturepics/sigpic20865_1.gif
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    So what is this?

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    An old shifter?
    They're stilsons.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fifth Columnist View Post
    A 'billion' used to be 1,000,000,000,000 'til the yanks devalued it.
    Yes!

    So a Yank billion is 1000 million, not a million million
    And a Yank trillon is a million million, not a million million million.

    Their foreign debt is so much less than what they make out.
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