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

LOL

You own the language used in the USA. We own the language that we use here in the UK. There are remarkable similarities (as well as some differences) between the languages :-)

Except that the UK and the US don't have an equivalent of the Academie Francaise which regulates the language. We have dictionaries which reflect current usage and imply what usage is and isn't "acceptable" but those are advisory, not mandatory.

Ah. I don't know much Greek. I don't no much more Latin :-)

But I assumed that "paed" was Ancient Greek for child, rather than boy.

But then in Roman and Greek times, boys were the only "important" gender: women were just for child-bearing and pleasure.

And the silly way that UK cops say 'mum' to their female seniors.

That reminds me of some cars which have their speedos calibrated clockwise but with 0 at the 2 o'clock position and highest speed at about the 10 o'clock position, as opposed to 0 at 8 o'clock and max speed at 4 o'clock. Takes a bit of getting used to.

Could be worse: they could have also calibrated it anticlockwise=increase ;-)

That is very arguable with the way you lot have adopted americanisms like OK, airport, googling something etc.

Thanks for that.

We USED to have books put out by Oxbridge containing 'correct' grammar and usage.

Only people learning English as a foreign language study English Grammar.

Its all part of the destruction of English culture started by Blair.

I wonder why they are so scared of it.

As I said, id you let people decide which side of the road to drive on, its a f****ng mess., Standards are *necessary* in culture, and 'diversity' is a chimera

Who pays any attention to a standards committee?

I think France tried that once. Street View is cool. Most countries have a lot of English visible, but France is still mainly French. One does see BURGERS and TASTY PIZZA and such.

Before dictionaries were invented, starting about 1600 for English, people just said and spelled any way they liked. The idea of "correct" English came later.

My breakers go left <> right. They are not affected by gravity.

Tony EE since 1975

I thing the AC Cobra used an anti-clockwise speedo.

Even if it only burns his house, it causes work for the emergency workers that they don't need.

Ah, of course, you need more amps. The biggest I have is rated 6A. I don't trust those cables and sockets for more than that.

Oh.

Ok, it was a google link to the photo of the next link:

The rationale is that if you put one strand of wire, it will fuse before the 10 strands of the whole cable :-)

127 was a standard voltage here some time...

No idea.

Here all houses have circuit breakers.

Makes sense.

No, with red.

Each town also had a separate clock on local time. Do you think we should go back to that, too? And make Gujerati an official language?

That's because of your stupid 120 volt obsession.

Probably against the USA's precious little code to turn it round. You'll be put in jail.

Cut it out with the double negatives. You could have said "that's common". Don't make us cancel things out to work out what you mean.