Thought about you guys

[cozmik_cowboy]

No, Joey, you cannot watch too much Dr. Who!!!!
And be sure to catch Torchwood; if you have ComCast, every episode is now available on On Demand.
My fascination with Brit-isms began with the owner's manual for my Triumph Spitfire, which told me things like how long the running-in period was, how raise & lower the hood and the bonnet, and that the spare tyre was in the boot.
(Translated into Yank: breaking-in period, put the roof up & down, open & close the hood, tire in the  trunk)
I have done advanced studies with the Dr., Captain Jack,  
Peter

[sonicus]

Wire that ground wire POSITIVE !

[jacko]

Wolf. In standard household appliances* we have 3 wires over here. Blue (negative), Brown (positive) and yellow/green (earth - or ground in your language). Under no circumstances should you wire earth to positive unless you want to go out in a blaze of glory ;-)
 
Graeme
 
* before terry chips in.... in addition to this 'standard' we have other standards involving red and black.

[jazzyvee]

We also say Mirror and not Meeeeeeeerrrrrrr.
 
Jazzyvee

[jacko]

and we welcome tourists with open arms :-)
 
graeme

[jazzyvee]

Some Americanisms make me smile/cringe too. We  refer to the item for looking at yourself in the bathroom as a Mirror (Mir-ror)and not Meeeeeeeerrrrrrr.
Joining two metal items together using a flowing filler metal is to Sol-der not Sodder.
Why on earth would you call a toilet a rest room?
:-)
 
Good job we say Alembic the same...or is that Olympic :-)
 
Jazzyvee

[sonicus]

Graeme , (jacko)
              Yes of course not for house hold AC . With Positive ground I was joking regarding the DC positive ground in some older British cars .

[tbrannon]

Peter,
 
As an American who spent several years living in New Zealand (around the Waikato), I can tell you that there is nothing funnier than listening to a kiwi try to imitate an American accent.  I had no idea we sounded so much like John Wayne.  

[keith_h]

Yep my old Austin America was a positive ground. Easiest standard ignition car I've ever owned as far as timing went. Pulled out the plug covering the timing gear, set 1 degree off TDC and lined up the distributor. Done.  
 
On our separation by a common language. Before I retired and would have dealings with my coworkers at the Hursley Lab I always got a kick out of our use of Z, Zee and their use of Z, Zed. Of course I understand it is we who changed it but none the less I could just imagine someone not familiar with the difference listening in and wondering what was going on.
 
Keith
 
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[sonicus]

Keith,
           I like that kind of simplicity in older vehicles !  
 
Wolf

[jacko]

keith. Was that IBM Hursley just outside Winchester?  I had to go down there a couple of times for Red-book presentations (implementing VTAM/SNA/IP in a parallel sysplex environment) a good few years ago.  Nice area. Winchester itself is a beautiful town. It's fun chatting to IBMers in raleigh who always refer to ZEE.O.S  when they really mean ZED.O.S  (IBM operating system in case y'all were wondering).
 
Graeme.
p.s. we called the Austin America the 1100 (or 1300 if you could afford the bigger engine)

[keith_h]

Graeme, That would be the lab. I was in CICS L2 support for a short while. Worked on CPSM while there. Most of my time was spent doing architecture and development in various Zee/OS and DF/SMS for Zee/OS functions and middleware. Spent about 5 years in the TCP/IP product suite. Being a dotty old fart I still call it MVS and DFP (occasionally DFDS).
 
The car was the 1100. Actually a pretty good car to give a teenager. It got good gas mileage and definitely wasn't fast. I much preferred driving my parents Oldsmobile 442 but talking about that would add another hijack to the thread.  
 
Keith