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[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Graham Meek on 22/09/2023 17:20:27:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the info, but thus far I have been unable to dis-arm the spell checker. I will just have to wait until the changeover.

Regards

Gray,

In the editor, try clicking the button marked 'ABC' and then 'Disable SCAYT'.

If that doesn't work, you may have a mis-configured Browser checker. As all Model Engineers know, nothing is ever easy…

Dave

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Graham Meek on 22/09/2023 10:35:26:

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Funnily enough it will accept color and colour, gage it won't, but gauge it will.

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Dysfunctional might be a good descriptor !

**LINK**

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/77189/prunus-domestica-cambridge-gage-(d)/details

MichaelG.

[Graham MeekParticipant @grahammeek88282]

Hi Dave,

The ABC button showed "Enable SCYAT", which would leave one to assume it was disabled. However I enabled it and then disabled it, then hey presto it now works properly.

Thanks for that, but I expect the reduction in stress levels will be short lived.

Regards

Gray,

Hi Michael,

As usual with this site one learns something new every day, and I do love plums.

The word gage sits in my brain from the days working at Rank-Xerox. The build sheets from the USA had to be re-written in UK English to suit the assembly staff. Gage and Color were frequent alterations and it was this job that put me off office work.

Regards

Gray,

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Graham Meek on 23/09/2023 09:57:38:

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The word gage sits in my brain from the days working at Rank-Xerox. The build sheets from the USA had to be re-written in UK English to suit the assembly staff. Gage and Color were frequent alterations and it was this job that put me off office work.

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I had 3 colleagues who'd been laid off by Xerox when times changed. They'd all enjoyed being 'Xeriods', and are probably still calling themselves that!

My dear old dad was entangled in converting US English into British English, and made heavy weather of 'Earth' and 'Ground'. Either his employer had a low opinion of their workforce, or their electricians were extremely thick, or perhaps just a bunch of old-fashioned jobsworths!

In my youthful experience Earth and Ground were synonymous, and I expected to everyone to be keen to explore Vcc, Vee, Vss and other mysteries. Not so apparently: any electrician who read the word 'Ground' was expected to have a nervous breakdown.

That the manuals described an exceptionally complicated system seemed not to matter. My theory is the boss men focussed on the only thing in the manuals they understood – Americanisms – and wasted everybody's time by fixing an irrelevant problem.

Dave

 

 

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 23/09/2023 11:55:14

[bernard towersParticipant @bernardtowers37738]

Would like to do the same but can't find the editor?

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by bernard towers on 23/09/2023 13:52:20:

Would like to do the same but can't find the editor?

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It is visible as the top two rows when you are composing a post

MichaelG.

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Edited By Michael Gilligan on 23/09/2023 14:02:21

[bernard towersParticipant @bernardtowers37738]

Thanks Michael, on the ball as usual.

[Graham MeekParticipant @grahammeek88282]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 23/09/2023 11:54:31:

In my youthful experience Earth and Ground were synonymous, and I expected to everyone to be keen to explore Vcc, Vee, Vss and other mysteries. Not so apparently: any electrician who read the word 'Ground' was expected to have a nervous breakdown.

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 23/09/2023 11:55:14

Hi Dave,

Taking us a little of post, the word "breakdown" was never used in the Radiotherapy Centre. When the machines went wrong they were reported as "Fallen Over". When I first heard the expression I had visions of the Radio Therapy machine in the bunker lay on its side.

A far cry from my days with Xerox.

Regards

Gray,

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