What Did You Buy Today?

SouthernChap said:
You might want to cool the jets of your linguistic outrage.:grin:

"vice" is a perfectly good spelling for the workbench or machine tool mounted device.

In the country where English was born, "vice" can mean either a jawed gripping device or a bad habit/immoral behaviour. Working out which meaning is intended is almost always clear from the context.

You American fellows invented so much of what we talk about on here, it feels a bit churlish to complain about you chaps not referring to the 'top slide' as the 'compound slide' and the oft repeated incorrect British use of "swarf" instead of the correct term "chip" is best avoided, but in this case, using the spelling "vice" is perfectly acceptable.;)
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@SouthernChap

Not to nitpick, but....

Swarf, according to the oxford dictionary is: fine chips or filings of stone, metal, or other material produced by a machining operation. "a curl of metal swarf"
 
SouthernChap said:
You might want to cool the jets of your linguistic outrage.:grin:

"vice" is a perfectly good spelling for the workbench or machine tool mounted device.

In the country where English was born, "vice" can mean either a jawed gripping device or a bad habit/immoral behaviour. Working out which meaning is intended is almost always clear from the context.

You American fellows invented so much of what we talk about on here, it feels a bit churlish to complain about you chaps not referring to the 'top slide' as the 'compound slide' and the oft repeated incorrect British use of "swarf" instead of the correct term "chip" is best avoided, but in this case, using the spelling "vice" is perfectly acceptable.;)
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No offense intended; it's a difference in UK vs. US use of the word(s). Now I've got to look up "I set my vise on the bench" vs. "I sat my vise on the bench". ;)

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GrifterGuru said:
@SouthernChap

Not to nitpick, but....

Swarf, according to the oxford dictionary is: fine chips or filings of stone, metal, or other material produced by a machining operation. "a curl of metal swarf"
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We can all expand our vocabularies on this site with members from all over the world! Another varied meaning word is "chap(s)". It can mean a man, but it also is leg protection while riding. It's also a verb for flaking or drying of the hands. And beating the horse well beyond death, it's also one of the jaws of a vice/vise.

And now, back to our beloved "What Did You Buy Today?" thread!
 
SouthernChap said:
You might want to cool the jets of your linguistic outrage.:grin:

"vice" is a perfectly good spelling for the workbench or machine tool mounted device.

In the country where English was born, "vice" can mean either a jawed gripping device or a bad habit/immoral behaviour. Working out which meaning is intended is almost always clear from the context.

You American fellows invented so much of what we talk about on here, it feels a bit churlish to complain about you chaps not referring to the 'top slide' as the 'compound slide' and the oft repeated incorrect British use of "swarf" instead of the correct term "chip" is best avoided, but in this case, using the spelling "vice" is perfectly acceptable.;)
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I thought a “chip” was a french fry, now I’m confused!
 
I still remember when I was working in the plant and a tech from Switzerland was setting up a new press. He asked me for a torch and I told him we had to have a hot work permit for that. He looked at me funny and picked up a flashlight off my tool box.
 
GrifterGuru said:
@SouthernChap

Not to nitpick, but....

Swarf, according to the oxford dictionary is: fine chips or filings of stone, metal, or other material produced by a machining operation. "a curl of metal swarf"
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Nitpicking (or in other words ensuring technical correctness, which as we all know is the best kind of correctness) is kinda what we're all about, so I bloody hope you are nitpicking and continue to do so. ;):grin:

I was under the (incorrect as it turns out) impression that swarf was more along the lines of fine dust, like that produced by grinding and wasn't the result of the application of machine tools.

Eh, every day's a school day. :)
 
BGHansen said:
No offense intended.
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You'd have to put a sight more effort into offending than that for me to be offended! ;):grin:

Besides, y'all have been trampling over the worlds greatest language with your cowboy/rigger/basketball boots for centuries now, the English have learned to bear it. It helps that your country has been responsible for some of the greatest innovation humankind has produced so we can call it even I guess. :grin:;)
 
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