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.