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Paul,

Hunh?



Steve,

And I thought people from Vermont were called, uh, "Vermin"....

<Badump bump *ching*>

(Sorry, had to do it! )

We have the town of Perris (where Scott35's train museum is) out here.
I've never heard of the residents being called anything other than "Perrisites".

Well, Virgil's thoroughly confused now..... Don't worry about it too much; the rhyming slang experts can talk for ages with nobody else able to understand a "dickie bird" (word).

WireWrestler:
I've only ever been through Lancashire a couple of times. It's northern England, where most of the poeple don't speak real English! (No kidding folks: With some of the "accents" up there, us southerners should take an interpreter with us!) The local accents from Newcastle, Glasgow (Scotland) and Belfast (N. Ireland) are also impossible to understand.

Seriously though, just imagine some of the problems that could arise through someone not realizing certain differences in terminology, like going to the wrong floor in a building.

Another example: You might hear a British mother telling a young child to "Stay on the pavement." Just think what could happen if that was said in all innocence to an American kid. Most people here know that what they call the pavement is a sidewalk in America, but very few of them are aware of the American usage of "pavement."

I'll always remember explaining the food terminology to a girl of about 13 down in Tifton, Ga. She looked kind of puzzled, and said [Southern Drawl], "Gee, I thought y'all spoke English over there!"

Had some good fun brewing up sugar cane down there as well.

LOL electure,
Not much can be said about Perris, CA. other than it has a good moto-cross track and a military airplane museum.

[hmm, that is more than my town has ]

[This message has been edited by Nick (edited 11-20-2001).]

About how to refer to the residents of a place--

There's a nice town just outside Banff national Park in Alberta, called Canmore.

The residents call themselves Canmorons.

Cliff

Paul Enjoyed the language lesson - brings back memories of bieng stationed at RAF Lakenheath for 4 years. Wish I could have spent more time off the base, but my shop was very short on manning.

Ed:

Lakenheath isn't too far away from me (about 80 miles at a rough guess). We occasionally get planes from there fly out here along the coast to do training over the North Sea. I guess another British term I should have mentioned is "aeroplane" for airplane.
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Going a little more on-topic for electrics, the British Standard symbols for electrical fixtures on architectural plans are also different to those in the U.S.

A few electronics symbols are also normally drawn a little differently, such as that for an electrolytic capacitor.
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Oh yes, here's a question for you all:
What do you think I'd be about to do if I'd just bought a silencer?

Sounds like a remote-TV-controller with a mute button on it.

Having seen too many James Bond movies, I would think it would go on the exhaust system of your Aston-Martin, or the barrel of your Walther PPK

You've got it Scott -- It would be for the car exhaust system. It's what the rest of you would call the muffler.