Guage

On 16/01/2008 18:33, Gooage said,

LOL - I saw your subject line and thought "NO - IT'S GAUGE"!!!!!! I guess you're not the only one whose nose this gets up. (Was that Yoda speak???)

Not quite... Yoda might have said it like 'Guess I you not only one whose nose gets up it does...'

;-)

Ian J.

On 16/01/2008 19:30, Ian J. said,

That has to be read Frank Oz stylee to get the full effect :-)

(Yup - this 40+ person systematically sat through all six Star Wars films a few months ago.)

So what does DEISEL or BREAK VAN do for you? I know that they CARRIDGE me away!

Regards

So now do you understand why Skywalker Snr went over to the dark side ?

The Victorians used brake and break interchangeably.

Misspelling on forums appears to be a common gripe. Most are without a spell checker. You should go look at the Hornby or games forums.

To be honest I don't let it bother me so long as I understand what is being said but just don't get me started on Internet jargon or acronyms ...........

AAK ? Asleep At Keyboard.

blow a buffer ? Euphemism for spacing out or losing one's train of thought.

($)($)

"Christopher A.Lee" wrote > The Victorians used brake and break interchangeably.

They also used waggon and wagon!

DW

Plus railway and railroad

Coat ....

Surely it wsas "Ye olde brayke vanne"? :o)

I've seen it spelt waggone, and in a historical reference too! It think what we know regard as "correct" spelling is an invention of the 20th century printing industry?

(kim)

"Break van" is ok - in the nineteenth century brake van was often spelt that way!

Greg.P.

Those two hooks in the middle were useful - you could hang an unused spragg on them.

Greg.P.

gets" !

Oh! please give me a break from the people who don't know the correct use of Brake!

Mike said the following on 17/01/2008 03:55:

Hopefully it's now clear that "break" and "brake" were interchangeable in the not so distant past. Things change though, and "brake" is now the accepted form, in the same way that "shew" has dropped out of use in favour of "show".

For some absolutely appalling examples of how our education system has failed us, just look at some eBay listings or the eBay discussion forums. Some posts are so illiterate that you genuinely can't understand what they're trying to say, then the poster gets all uppity when someone asks them to explain it more clearly.

Don't even get me started on people who email or post in text-speak - computers have proper keyboards, FFS :-)

Are you sure you are not making an horrible mistake here?

I recently read that it's... an "vowelXXXXX" and a "consonantXXXXX"

Andy

Quite so!

What really gets up my nose is the use of gauge when scale is meant!!

Paul