Why do we call it "Stain"?

well, given that the intent of most stains (the woodworking sort, that is) is to simulate the effects of age, the name may not be as great a misnomer as all that....

Don't overlook the role stains play in the quest of homoginizing different flitches of wood. If one builds a single piece of furniture from a mix of white- and red oak, ash, and others, to apply a nice heavy stain will certainly make it all look 'the same'. Grand Rapids furniture, from the tail end of the 19 th century to the l950's was often stained heavily for just that purpose. There are many examples, both historic and current.

We call it "stain" or "stained" because you can't throw it in the washing machine with Tide and have bare wood when the cycle is over.

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Umm that would be because it "stains" the wood. What prompted you to ask the question? Or should I have asked, what reason did you have to ask that question?

Ever tried to get the sh%t of your hands? ;) regards John

Amen, brother. My wife complains that it looks like I've been picking my ass all day.

Come back after you've used orange Solar Lux.

It looks like you've just had major surgery.

Umm, perhaps to dust off some words we (the vast unwashed majority) don't often get a chance to use? Tom

I believe you hit the nail on the head.

(snip) Discolor is exactly what we are trying to do when using stain, is it not :)

Ipe dust also makes you think that you have been badly cut. The dust is bright yellowy green until it gets dampened by sweat or a cleaner like CMT Formula 2050. Then the dust turns Blood Red.

Who's setting the odds?

Ewww...

That's a funny word.

Are we "coloring" or "discoloring"? Is that like local usage for the spring phenomenon "unthaw"? (which happens to druive me nuts).

Perhaps it's just the pejorative form: dis'ing [sic] the coloring process.

rambling....

Steve

Being from Houston, the word "Thaw" coming from the weather reporters mouth would be foreigh to me. ;~) Unthaw would be to ReFreeze, no?

What drives me nuts is, the vehivle "over turned" what happened to "rolled over"? Are they sure that the vehicle over turning was the cause of the roll over? May be the vehicle was going straight when it rolled over.

The wrecker uprighted the over turned vehicle. Why not, the wrecker turned the car over.

And my all time favorite form the cute young thing that was the traffic girl and is now the news anchor,

The airplane "skidded into a crash".

"discolor" or "discoloration" has a negative connotation while "color" is usually regarded positively. Now where is the Oxford English Dictionary when I need it.

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Now we're getting into the fascinating area of common usage. I claim some experience in this area as I have lived and worked in four English speaking countries and the differences in usage continue to fascinate me. "Overturned" (note: one word) sounds right to me as does "rolled over". However, I would say that "overturned" would be the more precise term of the two. "The wrecker uprighted the over turned vehicle" contains some redundancy: "uprighted" implies that the vehicle was already "overturned". "skidded into a crash" is interesting. It doesn't bother me too much but I would be inclined to say "skidded and crashed".

To me, rolled over is ambiguous, it could have rolled over halfway, or all the way.

Unless there was an existing crash, and the driver added to it. (Although nouning verbs is one of those things that often grates upon me. ;)

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