Re: ZEE or ZED?


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on December 17, 2006 at 08:23:38 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: ZEE or ZED? posted by Ed Kiser on December 16, 2006 at 12:36:43:

The ADUSTABLE SPANNER in England is a, (ready for this one?) MONKEY WRENCH.

Hmmmmm. In the workshop I was in in the very early '60s, the adjustable spanner was known as 'the metric'.

A joke of course, but speaks of true insularity. Anything not Whitworth or AF was a job for the adjustable.


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