| Could someone kindly explain to me whats meant by this below? | | "If you like extra work but a better finish, then rout a 12mm dado | in the one piece" | | You see in the UK a *Dado* is the term used for a wooden rail that | goes around the walls in a living room of a house.
| On Oct 20, 6:07 pm, "Morris Dovey" wrote: || The3rd Earl Of Derby (in || _Fb_g.38876$ snipped-for-privacy@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk) said: || ||| Could someone kindly explain to me whats meant by this below? ||| ||| "If you like extra work but a better finish, then rout a 12mm dado ||| in the one piece" ||| ||| You see in the UK a *Dado* is the term used for a wooden rail that ||| goes around the walls in a living room of a house. || || US Dado => UK Rebate | | I use rabbet for rebate pretty regularly, and I may use a dado | stack to cut one, but I don't call a rebate (or rabbet) a dado.
I suppose that you intend "Derby" to be pronounced as "Darby".
I suspect that you suffer hearing the term "Rebate" being reduced to the Neo Anglo Lingua Franca of "Rabbet".
I would further suppose that you decry the differentiation, or lack thereof, between "Timber" and its simplification to the point of the mediocritous - "Wood".
We grew up with "Sycamore", whilst (I do miss being able to use the word "whilst") you enjoyed the "London Plane Tree".
We think of "Oak" as "Quercus alba" or "Quercus rubra" v. "Quercus robur" and we will not go into 'Crimschmidt' just now, as it is an unholy alliance not unlike those that occur in our Appalachian mountain regions.
You have "Deal". We are simply trying to get one.
Ye, we enjoy "Quirks". The physicists have "Charmed" ones but we simple wooddorkers have "Quirk and Bead", which has the charm of being visible.
We eat "Macs" rather than wear "Macks".
We think that "Lorrie" is the name of an old girlfriend whom we drove particularly hard.
We can thank Daniel Webster for the loss of the "u". He went on a (mostly unsuccessful) campaign to rid US English of "silent" letters such as this. Some newspaper in Chicago attempted even more changes for the sake if change. Fortunately, most of these efforts came to naught. Jim
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