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

I'm not suicidal, but if I was I wouldn't tell anybody. From what I've seen, the response is more like punishment than help.

I seem to remember that in the US, the voltage drop is considered OK if it is no more than 5V (I'm not sure if that's on 120V or 240V).

We own the language now. Tiny old monarchies and former empires don't matter much any more.

Max Demian <max snipped-for-privacy@bigfoot.com wrote

English does too, you, you two and yous or y'all

But none of us are british or english.

Thats what uni holidays are.

Not here.

That's because you have to pull on the throttle cable to open the throttle. (I suppose the cable could feed into the bottom of the grip, in which case it would be the other way round).

Twist grip gear changes on pedal cycles are the other way round: top away to shift up a gear. Something to do with how the Sturmey-Archer hub gears are made.

That's because in a simple tap screwing it down (with a right hand thread) screws down on the washer.

I think the convention is for hot to be on the left. My kitchen mixer tap was that way, but when a plumber replaced it he connected it the other way for no apparent reason.

I reversed the inserts, but they are just C and H and aren't clearly visible. I have just have to remember which way it is.

My bathroom basin mixer tap is like that, where you move it to the left for hot. There is s split red/blue indicator under the lever, but you can't see it from a normal standing position. I've just got used to it.

They used to, don't anymore not whilst i was working on them it was so that your sleeve didn't accidentally catch one and push it up!...

Still got a few of the very old Paintion Quadrant ones, very well made in effect a high precision 600 Ohm attenuator!..

I'm not entirely convinced with the explanation for the direction clock hands move. It's supposed to be because of sundials, but clock faces are usually vertical, and vertical sundials move the other way. (There's one on the side of some old alms houses near where I live.)

I think it was just chance, or perhaps a famous clock had hands moving deiseil. (Adjacent cogs in a gear train move in opposite directions and it just happened that the one with a twelve hour period was going deiseil.) In any case, the first clocks with dials has the *dial* rotating and the hand (with fingers I think) was stationary. No idea which way they rotated.

Not just those, I was struck with that sort of thing often used in that magnificent reality TV series '24 houra in A&E' by medical professionals and with teachers with kids in UK schools.

For the Spanish one, is the hot marked with a C?

a standards committee. You nurking farqual.

They have started calling me 'my lovely'

No idea why

LOL

You own the language used in the USA. We own the language that we use here in the UK. There are remarkable similarities (as well as some differences) between the languages :-)

Except that the UK and the US don't have an equivalent of the Academie Francaise which regulates the language. We have dictionaries which reflect current usage and imply what usage is and isn't "acceptable" but those are advisory, not mandatory.

Ah. I don't know much Greek. I don't no much more Latin :-)

But I assumed that "paed" was Ancient Greek for child, rather than boy.

But then in Roman and Greek times, boys were the only "important" gender: women were just for child-bearing and pleasure.

And the silly way that UK cops say 'mum' to their female seniors.

That reminds me of some cars which have their speedos calibrated clockwise but with 0 at the 2 o'clock position and highest speed at about the 10 o'clock position, as opposed to 0 at 8 o'clock and max speed at 4 o'clock. Takes a bit of getting used to.

Could be worse: they could have also calibrated it anticlockwise=increase ;-)

That is very arguable with the way you lot have adopted americanisms like OK, airport, googling something etc.

You own American English, we own English. The point of confusion is that you think them the same.

Thanks for that.