Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

That is sadly, because most English people today are not taught English. They can't pronounce it, spell it, or use correct grammar.

An educated Indian speaks better English.

Wait till you hit Cockney rhyming slang or Polari. You'll be well cattled.

Should have been yjohnghee.

Try speaking Afrikaans in Holland, they will understand you, but laugh.

Ancient Greek has three "number" forms: singular, dual and plural.

That's correct British English. Time away for recreational purposes is always holiday (vacation in the US).

Time away from school is holiday, from college or university is vacation, and work is holiday or leave.

Similarly a communal eatery is canteen in school, refectory in a monastery or college/university, and canteen in a factory. In an office it is usually canteen too, but some call it the staff restaurant to be posh.

That's a form of address, not the same as you. People might say, "Can you come here," but not "Can darling come here."

(In Lancashire/Manchester shop girls call you "luv", which is a bit of a degradation of meaning.)

I suspect that the masculine form is used when gender is unknown or both meant, like the Greek "paed" meaning boy is used for both sexes as in paediatrics.

Deiseil is more common for clockwise, or sunwise, sunward. (These alternative names are only needed when discussing the origin of the direction of clock hands.)

I have seen them. I had no idea about the different threads.

Aren't they a bit expensive? Amazon doesn't help, because it wants to ship to Spain before citing a price in those I find.

Each old switch or socket in my house has one of these:

Maybe when multiplied by the voltage it gives a nice power figure.

My air conditioning unit is "inverter" type. Max power I think is

Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904?

John

I've never encountered a non-sprung one.

By an insignificant amount. If I draw the full 100A from my house feed, I drop 4 volts.

Why would it matter where you plugged in?

Maybe it's for s*it drivers.

Mind you the whole idea of metal wheels on metal tracks is crazy. If I drive my car with bald tyres, I'm breaking the law.

I had a Corsa, cheap s*it, bottom of the range. The worst model you could get form GM/Opel/Vauxhall/Holden (why the f*ck can't they use the same name worldwide?) I can't believe they ever put anything electronic in a Corsa. I went over a speed bump at only 4 times the speed limit and snapped the rear axle in half. If there was any justice the council would have paid for that criminal damage.

Remind me never to live in that communist state. It really is none of anyone's business how safe you are.

Widdershins is the only one I *have* heard of. Turnwise, Deiseil, Sunwise/Ward - can't say I've ever heard of those.

Clockwise is all very well until you see a clock like this

It had never actually occurred to me until now that "clockwise" is the same way that the sun appears to move in the sky, so the hour hand will follow the sun (except at double speed). I must have been singularly incurious to accept what "clockwise" meant without relating it to the direction of movement of the sun.

Regulations. Code implies encryption, if Merkins are to socialise with the rest of the world, they need to learn to use English correctly.

But afterwards you can change it and modify it and add to it, just don't tell them.

Which is pointless, as they still catch fire.

Aren't you breaking your precious code?

I've got one 2 feet away, am I a naughty boy? Makes the kettle easier to fill without unplugging it.

WTF has tribal to do with it?