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

Just don't confuse it with 988 or the white coats will be on their way.

"We are British, dear. We only show affection for dogs and horses."

you guys or y'all.

dawlin and honey in the south, by salesgirls for example. That's sort of nice.

Ah, French... Amazon Prime has a series 'Three Pines' that is set in Quebec. I couldn't figure out one of the detective's names until I saw it written Jean-Guy. I would have picked up on Jean-Paul or Jean-Marie but Jonkey left me puzzled.

That's what ours is derived from.

'you bugger' is common between men here.

IN NYCity, my apartment building and I'm sure most apartment buildings, rentals in general, used Fustats. It's an insert that screws into the original fuse holder (which I think used the same thread as a lightbulb), but the inserts have a different pitch internal thread for each amperage. So in the basement, I could only use one 20-amp Fustat, and in my apartment, I could only use two 15-amp Fustats.

Fustat was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, and the historical centre of modern Cairo -- oops, wrong link.

Menards has Cooper Bussmann® Tamper-Proof Fustat Heavy Duty Plug Fuse

I used to, had to power the whole 6-room apartments, including sometimes the last couple years a small air conditioner, on 20 amps. Only blew the fuse about 4 times.

I'll look, I'll even open it up eventually, but like most of what I own, it's buried. I know where, but that doesn't help.

I live in the American South. We have you, y'all, and all y'all, for increasing levels of plural you.

That is sadly, because most English people today are not taught English. They can't pronounce it, spell it, or use correct grammar.

An educated Indian speaks better English.

Wait till you hit Cockney rhyming slang or Polari. You'll be well cattled.

Should have been yjohnghee.

Try speaking Afrikaans in Holland, they will understand you, but laugh.

Ancient Greek has three "number" forms: singular, dual and plural.

That's correct British English. Time away for recreational purposes is always holiday (vacation in the US).

Time away from school is holiday, from college or university is vacation, and work is holiday or leave.

Similarly a communal eatery is canteen in school, refectory in a monastery or college/university, and canteen in a factory. In an office it is usually canteen too, but some call it the staff restaurant to be posh.

That's a form of address, not the same as you. People might say, "Can you come here," but not "Can darling come here."

(In Lancashire/Manchester shop girls call you "luv", which is a bit of a degradation of meaning.)

I suspect that the masculine form is used when gender is unknown or both meant, like the Greek "paed" meaning boy is used for both sexes as in paediatrics.

Deiseil is more common for clockwise, or sunwise, sunward. (These alternative names are only needed when discussing the origin of the direction of clock hands.)

I have seen them. I had no idea about the different threads.

Aren't they a bit expensive? Amazon doesn't help, because it wants to ship to Spain before citing a price in those I find.

Each old switch or socket in my house has one of these:

Maybe when multiplied by the voltage it gives a nice power figure.

My air conditioning unit is "inverter" type. Max power I think is