What has happened to proper nomenclature
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LOL!
And here's a (kinda) scientific study of differences between Canadian, American, and Commonwealth English. https://geekdad.com/2013/12/55-canadianisms-1/
I know to call (what I call) the washroom, the "bathroom" when travelling in the USA to avoid funny looks, but some of these are surprising! The meaning of a "two-four" is universally understood in Canada ... you don't even have to specify what it is that you are speaking of.
To go out on the race track (for example), and "Give'er" ... everyone here knows what it means. Apparently, not Americans!
Item 40 in that study has been sanitized (and they mention this but don't give the real term). The real term that is used in place of "bugger" has four letters, the first one being F.
Question for the Americans. Do you know what a "double-double" is? All Canadians know what that is!
And here's a (kinda) scientific study of differences between Canadian, American, and Commonwealth English. https://geekdad.com/2013/12/55-canadianisms-1/
I know to call (what I call) the washroom, the "bathroom" when travelling in the USA to avoid funny looks, but some of these are surprising! The meaning of a "two-four" is universally understood in Canada ... you don't even have to specify what it is that you are speaking of.
To go out on the race track (for example), and "Give'er" ... everyone here knows what it means. Apparently, not Americans!
Item 40 in that study has been sanitized (and they mention this but don't give the real term). The real term that is used in place of "bugger" has four letters, the first one being F.
Question for the Americans. Do you know what a "double-double" is? All Canadians know what that is!
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This prompted some internet research. There's stuff we have that Americans don't even know what is!
You don't have butter tarts? Or Smarties? Or Nanaimo bars? (That one I suspected, given that Nanaimo is a city in Canada)
http://www.americansguide.ca/isms.html
You don't have butter tarts? Or Smarties? Or Nanaimo bars? (That one I suspected, given that Nanaimo is a city in Canada)
http://www.americansguide.ca/isms.html
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My "double - double" is two sugars and two creams in my coffee ...Brian P wrote:LOL!
Question for the Americans. Do you know what a "double-double" is? All Canadians know what that is!
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And what's with people calling them "Vortex" heads or "Eldebrock" manifolds?
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All I know is that my small black chevy with ported and polished heads and 3/4 race cam runs like a scolded dog... and you can't dino that!
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You must have "the proper amount of backpressure!"GARY C wrote:All I know is that my small black chevy with ported and polished heads and 3/4 race cam runs like a scolded dog... and you can't dino that!
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As long as we're discussing correct terminology, that "huge ring" is usually called an inertia ring. It's usually neutral balanced and any external balance weight is most often found cast into the hub.exhaustgases wrote:Oh and there is a weight in all rubber bonded harmonic balancers it is the huge ring and would not balance the vibrations if it was not there.
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Not since the mid 70's has it been that way in the O.E.M. realm.PackardV8 wrote:As long as we're discussing correct terminology, that "huge ring" is usually called an inertia ring. It's usually neutral balanced and any external balance weight is most often found cast into the hub.exhaustgases wrote:Oh and there is a weight in all rubber bonded harmonic balancers it is the huge ring and would not balance the vibrations if it was not there.
Aftermarket SFI is probably a different story.
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Then there's always "my dizzy isn't working right with my carby on my eddy manifold".
I don't even bother to finish reading that.
I don't even bother to finish reading that.
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That goes right along with "juice" lifters ...Alan Roehrich wrote:Then there's always "my dizzy isn't working right with my carby on my eddy manifold".
I don't even bother to finish reading that.
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When talking about high temperatures and combustion some people say disassociation instead of dissociation.
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Dang, I have seen it printed that way since the earliest days. Had to look it up. Never realized there is a distinct difference.Circlotron wrote:When talking about high temperatures and combustion some people say disassociation instead of dissociation.
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I get a kick out of that one too. The commutative property of multiplication means either way is totally right, but for whatever reason "pound feet" sounds weird to me. I always heard "oil galley" too, until I started branching out and researching from other places, and started seeing "gallery". The rationale behind "gallery" definitely makes it seem like the more appropriate term.exhaustgases wrote: Its just like the fanaticism between "foot pounds of torque" and "pounds feet of torque" both terms mean the exact same thing.
Also, if you want to see a fun trick, hook me up to blood pressure cuff and say the abomination "irregardless" around me and watch the magic as it shoots through the roof! That butchery of a word makes me physically angry.
Oh, and also shock absorbers. Can't forget that one. They are dampeners.
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Shock absorbers I can live with. Ask for road or chassis dampers/dampners/dampeners and expect a blank look.
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