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Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: bonneyman on September 18, 2011, 10:39:23 PM
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There seems to be alot of interest in these pebble Plomb style of wrenches. Is the pebbling on purpose, or was it just a side effect of the manufacturing that Plomb just left on?
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It was a design element done on purpose and it sure does look nice.
I speculate it was partly aesthetic and partly to make a better grip with greasy paws than a flat wrench.
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Maybe just coming out of LA they had to be cool. IMO they are the sexiest with Bonney's right up there too.
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See, I was thinking about Bonney too. They have some wrenches full polish. But others had a "satin" finish, basically that was not smoothed down and polished shiney. I figured they did it for lower cost by saving some steps, and then said it was for better grip when greasy.
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Plomb probably picked up pebbling after Walden Worcester of Worcester, Mass. showed 'em how it looked. See proof below.
To all my fellow Delaware Valley USA compadres: Worcester is a two syllable word, pronounced Wooster or, in New England, Woostah.
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Wow, I've not seent that before sure is pretty.
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>Worcester is a two syllable word, pronounced Wooster or,
All of these years I have been putting wus-tar-share sauce on my french fries...
(In new england there is definitly a U after the w, none of those squirrly half committed oo's)
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Sounds reasonable, Rusty. Thanks for the update!
Wood, on the other hand, has the same pronunciation as the first syllable in Worcester.
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>Worcester is a two syllable word, pronounced Wooster or,
Yeah, like my old Win'ster 22 rifle...
Chester or -cester is a suffix meaning a camp. Comes from the time of the Roman occupation of England.
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i live in worcestershire :)
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How do you pronounce it over there, Benjy?
As a youngster, I called Worchestershire Sauce "Cha-Cha Sauce".
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Golly, the cha-cha wasn't invented until I was in college.
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wooster is as near as i can get spelling it :)
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Kinda makes you wonder why they bother teaching phoenitic spelling in school doesn't it ? LOL
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Kinda makes you wonder why they bother teaching phoenitic spelling in school doesn't it ? LOL
Yeah, well, strictly phonetic spelling also gives you dokter, as in dokter fill. Wooster is just another example of "silent" letters, like the "t" in often. Nobody blinks at "none" though it started life as "not one" or "ne one," and willy nilly started out as "will he, ne will he."
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Didn't know we had a bunch of lexicographers here!
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Didn't know we had a bunch of lexicographers here!
I'm more of a lexiphiliac. Now a linguist or philologist would explain that the language moving from -cester to 'ster is the result of sandhi variations, where an unaccented syllable is dropped from pronunciation.<g>
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It still amazes me that there were enough lexographers living in one place to found the entire town of Lexington...
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My older brother is a linguist, teaches at University of California at Santa Cruz and does seminars around the world. Some of the titles are almost impossible to decipher!
"The Historical Phonology of Vowel Length"
"Deletion in Coordinate Structure"
His Doctoral Thesis was titled "Constraints on Deletion in Syntax"
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An old friend sent this along on "lexiphiles":
LEXIPHILES: WHOEVER PUT THIS TOGETHER LOVES LANGUAGE:
To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U.C.L.A.
The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.
The batteries were given out free of charge.
A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
A will is a dead giveaway.
If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.
You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
Local Area Network in Australia : The LAN down under.
A boiled egg is hard to beat.
When you've seen one shopping centre you've seen a mall.
Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
Acupuncture: a jab well done.
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If you drop the same piano on a bottle of whisky, you'll get a diminished fifth...
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Man what a fine loking adjustable wrench!
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FINE looking Walden Worcester adjustable!
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The silent letters i can deal with, but it's the added letters that kill me. I work with a half dozen Brits, and most of them call a drawing a draw-ring. Where the heck did that extra R come from??
Jim
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Consider how the word "Belvoir" is pronounced in the UK: Beaver!
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>Where the heck did that extra R come from??
They keep extras in the draw-rer...
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Language is a trip.
Sometimes the old English spelling makes sense to me. Colour, favour....... Seems proper.
Sometimes I cannot relinquish spellings that seem backward to my brain. Lable for instance. I would just as soon spell out tabel, as type label.
Nobody really knows how to spell description or refrigerator reliably.
Pebble tools have an extra ingredient of cool.
We don't get that many extra flourishes in tools.
yours Scott
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Pebble tools have an extra ingredient of cool.
We don't get that many extra flourishes in tools.
yours Scott
Quote worthy!