Subj : Re: barbed wire telephony
To   : hyjinx
From : k9zw
Date : Fri Jun 10 2022 07:12:17

On 10 Jun 2022, hyjinx said the following...
 
 hy> On 07 Jun 2022, paulie420 said the following...
 hy>  
 hy>  pa>  hy> I mean, that's awesome and all, but if the phone system in USA i
 hy>  pa>  hy> anything like the UK phone system, then standard volage is +50vo
 hy>  pa>  hy> ringer is 100V, so you wouldn't want to be touching it when a ca
 hy>  pa>  hy> being established!
 hy>  pa> 
 hy>  pa> Blah, we prolly suck there too - electric kettles are slow and suck @
 hy>  pa> 110V. :P
 hy>  pa> 
 hy>  pa> 
 hy> 
 hy> Oh, is *that* why most of you 'mericans don't know what a Kettle is?!

You got it.  Americanlish and UKlish are really close, but have many basic differences. 

Entire books offering advice so hopefully Americans at a meeting don't tell their UKlish counterparts something rude, like "get motivated, or I will start riding you harder than your have have been before."  The American will think they have said nothing sexual where the UKlish will.

The tea drinking fixation is not so universal for the American either.  When our British house was restored we included in our budget, mostly for grins, a line item for Builder's Tea.  When I did building in Germany by contract there was daily rations of beer included.  Stateside the first on a buildsite might start the coffee, and especially end of week a case of beer might just appear.

So no Americans don't quickly identify kettle as anything more than a generic hit cooking pot.  There are good 110v ones for those who do (I like Fellow) and BTW the line voltage hasn't been 110vac since around WWII, as it is typically a nominal 117v or 120v by standards. It was raised enough that it can mess with some old tube (valve for the UKlish) radios.

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