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

I grew up in New Orleans, which is not really a southern city, just an island of weirdness that happens to be in the south. The native accent sounds Brooklyn. I got the perfectly neutral midwest NBC News announcer accent.

But we did use y'all. Guys would sometimes address other males as 'cap', short for captain I guess.

Where y'at cap? is kind of a universal greeting, like aloha. The proper response is where y'at?

West of NOLA one hears the Cajun accent and occasionally the language. East of NOLA starts to sound Mississippi. I don't know how they talk in Baton Rouge; nobody goes to Baton Rouge.

We'd drive to Destin weekends, where there is a nice soft southern accent.

Think about sundials for just a moment.

The Dutch aren't the kindest people.

It was legal. It was _not_ acceptable to our insurance company. No idea what the POs did, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have it properly insured.

"The wiring needs urgent attention" said our surveyor. He was actually surprised we bought it - on his advice we'd rejected a previous house. But that one had several items of the sort "Take that apart, and you'll be able to see what it will cost". This one had no unknown items. We did find a couple, but nothing major.

Andy

The summary I've heard is that it's quite easy to get to a level in English where you can be understood.

But really hard to get it correct.

Some other languages are harder to be understood in, but easier to get it right.

Then of course there's the Finno-Ugric group... (My wife is a linguist. I'm not)

Andy

Huh? The ones over the hill from use are clockwise.... Oh. Do you mean as seen from the front, or the back?

Andy

I once heard that expression followed by "and I stepped in a poodle".

Works though; provided there are no "leaves on the line".

(Something to with the friction between similar metals I think.)

No it doesn't. It's a system of rules to convert information from one form to another. It can be explicit, such as the following rule in the header of your post:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes

I'm not suicidal, but if I was I wouldn't tell anybody. From what I've seen, the response is more like punishment than help.

I seem to remember that in the US, the voltage drop is considered OK if it is no more than 5V (I'm not sure if that's on 120V or 240V).

We own the language now. Tiny old monarchies and former empires don't matter much any more.

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English does too, you, you two and yous or y'all

But none of us are british or english.

Thats what uni holidays are.

Not here.

That's because you have to pull on the throttle cable to open the throttle. (I suppose the cable could feed into the bottom of the grip, in which case it would be the other way round).

Twist grip gear changes on pedal cycles are the other way round: top away to shift up a gear. Something to do with how the Sturmey-Archer hub gears are made.

That's because in a simple tap screwing it down (with a right hand thread) screws down on the washer.

I think the convention is for hot to be on the left. My kitchen mixer tap was that way, but when a plumber replaced it he connected it the other way for no apparent reason.

I reversed the inserts, but they are just C and H and aren't clearly visible. I have just have to remember which way it is.

My bathroom basin mixer tap is like that, where you move it to the left for hot. There is s split red/blue indicator under the lever, but you can't see it from a normal standing position. I've just got used to it.

They used to, don't anymore not whilst i was working on them it was so that your sleeve didn't accidentally catch one and push it up!...

Still got a few of the very old Paintion Quadrant ones, very well made in effect a high precision 600 Ohm attenuator!..

I'm not entirely convinced with the explanation for the direction clock hands move. It's supposed to be because of sundials, but clock faces are usually vertical, and vertical sundials move the other way. (There's one on the side of some old alms houses near where I live.)

I think it was just chance, or perhaps a famous clock had hands moving deiseil. (Adjacent cogs in a gear train move in opposite directions and it just happened that the one with a twelve hour period was going deiseil.) In any case, the first clocks with dials has the *dial* rotating and the hand (with fingers I think) was stationary. No idea which way they rotated.

Not just those, I was struck with that sort of thing often used in that magnificent reality TV series '24 houra in A&E' by medical professionals and with teachers with kids in UK schools.

For the Spanish one, is the hot marked with a C?

a standards committee. You nurking farqual.