Why is called HO?

Greg Procter wrote in news:456B405F.5CD32F11 @ihug.co.nz:

And most American languages too.

But I heard that it was N for Nine, being that the gauge is nine mm between the rails.

Becaues it is easier than finding the "ä" key or the "æ" key.

ae, oe and ue are acceptible replacements when the diaresis isn't available. The same applies to ae and oe as the Latin alphabet ligatures are even harder to replicate in ASCII text than an umlaut. Just as "encyclopaedia" is an acceptible form of "encyclopædia" (properly spelled with the æ ligature), Maerklin is an acceptible transliteration of Märklin.

I have a German-born friend called Jürgen who types his name as Juergen when tnecessary.

Cheers David

No. My dictionary comes from Oxford.

Cheers David

"Webster".(Have any of you read Webster`s anything at all?)

Yabut "Webster" isn't a real dictionary, it's American, isn't it?

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Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

Well spoken...!

Now that everyone messed with your mind, now let me try. HO is an abbreviation of half "O"scale.Now let's see what the group can do with that.

Roger T. spake thus:

Hey, don't go all Greg Proctor on us, OK?

We are typing German in English.

Half-0.

And just because, an oldie-but-goodie:

Eye halve a spelling check her It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew.

Actually German in the Latin alphabet. :)

Cheers David

Hence:

I wrote that at the beginning of this thread.

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Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

"David Nebenzahl"

Sorry.

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Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

Er, uh, "normal" must mean two foot high rails, eh? Even Code 55 in N is verrrry heavy rail, and the more common Code 80 is insanely oversized.

Comparing UP to ho's is an insult to the oldest profession.

And I sent you a medal for that. Did it get lost in the mail again?

-- Ray

No one seems to have mentioned that it is half of British 0 scale (7mm:ft), not North American or European 0 scales :-)

Jim.