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No, Finished, Painted and Running will be next to become obscure in some circles Luckily its a local dialect thing centred around Hampshire
with the occasional profanity
Quote from: Vixen on November 30, 2018, 07:02:19 PMwith the occasional profanityThat sounds like what I call a technical term Jo
I understand that the concise Oxford English Dictionary has removed words such as "tadpole", "conker", "willow" and "frogspawn" as they see them as having been dropped out of common use I wonder how long before they remove all of our model engine terms as well Jo
Quote from: Jo on November 30, 2018, 05:44:03 PMI understand that the concise Oxford English Dictionary has removed words such as "tadpole", "conker", "willow" and "frogspawn" as they see them as having been dropped out of common use I wonder how long before they remove all of our model engine terms as well JoRemoved "tadpole" and "willow"?! Those are much used in my part of the world. Did they replace them with something?
Quote from: zeeprogrammer on November 30, 2018, 10:30:20 PMQuote from: Jo on November 30, 2018, 05:44:03 PMI understand that the concise Oxford English Dictionary has removed words such as "tadpole", "conker", "willow" and "frogspawn" as they see them as having been dropped out of common use I wonder how long before they remove all of our model engine terms as well JoRemoved "tadpole" and "willow"?! Those are much used in my part of the world. Did they replace them with something?So the tree is now called Tree Formerly Known As A Willow?
Quote from: crueby on November 30, 2018, 10:33:11 PMQuote from: zeeprogrammer on November 30, 2018, 10:30:20 PMQuote from: Jo on November 30, 2018, 05:44:03 PMI understand that the concise Oxford English Dictionary has removed words such as "tadpole", "conker", "willow" and "frogspawn" as they see them as having been dropped out of common use I wonder how long before they remove all of our model engine terms as well JoRemoved "tadpole" and "willow"?! Those are much used in my part of the world. Did they replace them with something?So the tree is now called Tree Formerly Known As A Willow?It's probably to make way for the our generation's cricket bats, which may well be 3D printed
Quote from: Vixen on November 30, 2018, 10:52:10 PMQuote from: crueby on November 30, 2018, 10:33:11 PMQuote from: zeeprogrammer on November 30, 2018, 10:30:20 PMQuote from: Jo on November 30, 2018, 05:44:03 PMI understand that the concise Oxford English Dictionary has removed words such as "tadpole", "conker", "willow" and "frogspawn" as they see them as having been dropped out of common use I wonder how long before they remove all of our model engine terms as well JoRemoved "tadpole" and "willow"?! Those are much used in my part of the world. Did they replace them with something?So the tree is now called Tree Formerly Known As A Willow?It's probably to make way for the our generation's cricket bats, which may well be 3D printed Like most of our baseball bats, which are aluminum most places now.