Re: Sapir-Whorf and threaded fasteners

Colin Fine <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Paul J Kriha wrote:
Joachim Pense <snob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eljudo$f5o$01$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Right; there is also the term "Schraubendreher", but that is confined
to technical usage.
Once you've stripped the screw, and you're turning it forever ... like
the poor Leiermann at the end of Winterreise.
rolling on the floor laughing forever...

In the metric or Wentworth style?

Whitworth.

Yeah, that's the one. Thanks again.
My excuse is that my school and university years were
spent in a country that had been metricated generations
earlier and thus I didn't have to learn how to spell
Whitworth. I only vaguely remembered the sound of it.

Google is useless with Whitworth.
pjk


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