Allan Webster | 21/10/2021 15:10:07 |
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lubricated and painted. Has given years of faithful service. After the addition of soft jaws, angle plates etc it is now more of a clamping
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larry phelan 1 | 21/10/2021 16:56:15 |
1346 forum posts 15 photos | Vice ?????? Surely you mean Vise ? Standards are slipping !!!, Where is the censor when we need him [or her ] |
Nigel Bennett | 21/10/2021 17:06:32 |
![]() 500 forum posts 31 photos | Vice it is. If you speak English. No censor needed. But if you speak American, then it's vise. Why that should be just makes me - um - "tyred..." |
Tim Stevens | 21/10/2021 17:19:41 |
![]() 1779 forum posts 1 photos | Look, we (who incidentally cobbled English together over 1,000 years), left the EU because we could be doing with their standards. So we don't look kindly on ex-colonials who forget that their own standards were only invented about 100 years ago. There, nothing censorial about that, is there? Cheers, Tim
Edited By Tim Stevens on 21/10/2021 17:20:09 |
Howard Lewis | 22/10/2021 08:24:28 |
7227 forum posts 21 photos | At least we now have a Record ( ! ) of a device being renovated and returned to useful service. (Oh dear two "vices" , must be one of mine to stick to UK spellings ) Howard
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Circlip | 22/10/2021 09:48:13 |
1723 forum posts | Sadly the English dictionary to replace the original sent with the Pilgrim Fathers went down with the Titanic. Regards Ian. |
Rod Renshaw | 22/10/2021 10:05:07 |
438 forum posts 2 photos | Never mind the width of the Atlantic, I find a difference in the length of my workshop! At the metalwork end it's a clamp and at the woodwork end it's a cramp, and sometimes it's the exact same tool that I have borrowed from the other end. Does this happen in places other than England ? ( I am not sure if the Scots and Welsh have this situation) Rod
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Mark Rand | 22/10/2021 10:05:28 |
1505 forum posts 56 photos | Noah Webster ought to be suffering many torments for the butchery he did to our wonderful, mongrel, language. |
Frances IoM | 22/10/2021 10:18:58 |
1395 forum posts 30 photos | actually if you read any 17th or early 18th century handwritten documents you will find many variations in spelling - several of which were adopted by the American colonies. |
Nick Wheeler | 22/10/2021 11:08:12 |
1227 forum posts 101 photos | Posted by Mark Rand on 22/10/2021 10:05:28:
Noah Webster ought to be suffering many torments for the butchery he did to our wonderful, mongrel, language. It's |
ega | 22/10/2021 11:10:01 |
2805 forum posts 219 photos | The entry for clamp in Salaman's Dictionary says "see cramp". Traditionally, woodworkers used the latter term to distinguish clamp in the sense of a piece of timber fastened at right angles to the end of a table or other structure needing to be kept flat. |
mark costello 1 | 22/10/2021 19:57:40 |
![]() 800 forum posts 16 photos | Is Your vise made of Aluminum? |
duncan webster | 23/10/2021 00:02:16 |
5307 forum posts 83 photos | I don't know of any family connection with Noah Webster, but some American president reckoned that if you could only think of one way to spell a word you had a small mind. My grand daughter (age 5) agrees, she spelled cucumber as quoocomb, which I reckon is an improvement on the original |
Jon Lawes | 23/10/2021 00:57:21 |
![]() 1078 forum posts | Phantom limb pains are keeping me awake, at least thats how I'm justifying the fact I just looked up the origin of the word Vice (with relation to this tool). Apparently it comes from the Old french Vis, which comes from the latin Vitis, for vine. So none of us are spelling it right, depending how far back you go. There is something very satisfying about refurbishing the equipment that only usually gets used for working on other things. It almost feels like payback. |
Pete. | 23/10/2021 02:46:36 |
![]() 910 forum posts 303 photos | Posted by mark costello 1 on 22/10/2021 19:57:40:
Is Your vise made of Aluminum? If it was, it would be invisible, because there's no such thing. Edited By Pete. on 23/10/2021 02:48:53 |
ega | 23/10/2021 09:43:52 |
2805 forum posts 219 photos | Posted by Jon Lawes on 23/10/2021 00:57:21:
Apparently it comes from the Old french Vis, which comes from the latin Vitis, for vine. Yes, and according to OED because of the spiral growth of the tendrils. |
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