Jigs, general knowledge

[Andy D Jones]

How's that saying go? "England and USA: two countries separated by a common language."
-- Andy - Arlington TX

[Bruce Wrenn]

How's that saying go? "England and USA: two countries separated by a common language."
-- Andy - Arlington TX

George Patton, Circa 1946

[Steve Wurster]

George Patton, Circa 1946

Patton died in 1945. That quote however is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but it's never found in any of his works.

[Edwin Santos]

George Patton, Circa 1946

Patton died in 1945. That quote however is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but it's never found in any of his works.

I've also heard it (or a variation of it) attributed to Oscar Wilde

[johnny means]

It's ironic that I'm reading this on a telephone connected to the web.

[Jared Sankovich]

Amusingly only groups I've heard the instance on correct usage from has been machinists and fabricators.

[Pete Staehling]

When a usage becomes common enough among competent practitioners it can become the accepted usage or at least an accepted usage. The question is when that is or isn't the case. There can also be a regional factor.

[Mel Fulks]

Can't resist noting a great Oxford moment. Years ago I was reading the journal of the French Jesuit ,Charlevoix who was
exploring North America. He
mentioned some kind of animal I had never heard of, or didn't think would be where he was. Can't remember what it was.
But part of the Oxford definition said the name was used incorectly by Charlevoix, and then said what the guy was
really describing ! It's a marvelous work.

[Dave Mount]

When I was in graduate school, one of the staff and I replumbed a big water treatment system for the aquatic lab. As we worked, we developed an alternate name for every tool we used (different sizes of pipe wrenches, pipe cutter, pipe threader, etc.). It started with "Hand me that whatsit", and grew until every tool had an off-label name, but they were unique to each tool. "Hand me the whatsit -- no, not the thingamabob, the whatsit." I'm editing to clean it up a little, several of the names were R rated. We laughed and laughed about our growing terminology. Shared misery I guess. . .

[Mel Fulks]

"Shared misery ,I guess. " Makes me think of "perhaps someday these things will be a pleasure to recall " Glad you
made it !