mispronounced DIY terminology

[chris French]

Yup, I think I've always used cill.

[Owain]

It would a capital Letter if it was german be.

I spent most of the day (I wasn't rushing it) banging and screwing in the lounge; of course it was the *last* sodding drawer that decided to split apart when I looked at it. It's only folded chip held together with vinyl foil (and glue and panel pins, now).

Owain

[Steve Walker]

Certainly when I went on a narrow-boating holiday thirty years ago, the books referred to the stone ledge in the bottom of a lock as the cill.

I've also had a quick google and it appears that it may also these days be a building trade specific variant.

SteveW

[Steve Walker]

That was just a Freudian slip!

SteveW

[Steve Walker]

And now you're just trolling :)

SteveW

[John Bryan]

Lintol is NOT a word in Chambers Dictionary

Batten (1) to grow fat at the expense of (2) piece of sawn timber used for support

Baton staff of office, short stick passed from one runner to another

[jgharston]

What I've always referred to as "vellucks" windows are apparently "veee-lucks" windows.

JGH

[Bob Eager]

Yes, actually saw (and heard) a TV advert recently....I had it wrong too.

[F Murtz]

more space problems. Anyone got any other good DIY pronouncation clangers ?

Soder and soddering by Americans.

[Ian Jackson]

I've had a Surform plane like this for over 40 years.

I've only used it on the odd occasion, and one of these was a couple of days ago. For some reason, and completely out of the blue, it suddenly dawned on me that what I had always thought of as 'surf-form' was probably 'sure-form'. Which is correct?

[The Natural Philosopher]

I used to do that, when I was a lusty young lad.

[PeterC]

A reasonable comment/question. At w**k, many years ago, a rep. came in and asked if we were interested in fire protection. He just didn't get it when I said no, but if he had ways of destroying fires we'd like to know. Same with an 'explosion-proof' motor - I wanted one that wouldn't spark an explosion and didn't care what happened to the motor.

[chris French]

In message , Ian Jackson writes

Dunno, but I've always said 'Sir'

[Bob Eager]

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I always thought it was a contraction of 'surface forming'. My father always pronounced it 'surf-form' and that's at least 50 years ago...

[Ian Jackson]

Thanks. At least, every time I use it, I don't have to think "How silly I was, for 40 years, not to know how to pronounce its name correctly". I shall continue to call it "surf-form" (or "sir-form").

[Andy Dingley]

I teach soldering. Don't ask me how, but the last year I seem to have spent a lot of it teaching soldering. Some of it for electronics to sproggages, some teaching stained glass.

"You've really soddered that one" (American pronunciation) has become shorthand for, "That's not the neatest soldered joint I've ever seen."

[Owain]

Someone of my age should really be able to afford ready-built furniture.

Owain

[Mr Pounder]

Do you really think so??

At w**k, many years ago, a rep. came in and asked if we were interested in

He should have clicked to that.

Same with an 'explosion-proof' motor - I wanted one that wouldn't spark an

[John Rumm]

more space problems. Anyone got any other good DIY pronouncation clangers ?

Noggin Vs Nogging seems a common one. I always used to use the former, but now believe the second is actually the more correct.

[dave]

Yes I thought it was some new process when I heard it on a Yankee electronics utube thang! Buoy, it did sound strange.