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On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:26:26 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
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On Wed, 27 May 2009 07:35:25 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
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Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2009 06:36:12 -0400, jim7856 wrote:

Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2009 20:06:51 -0600, "SteveB"
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"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 May 2009 16:35:27 -0600, "SteveB"
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I feel like I live on another planet. Our climate here is such that
corrosion and a lot of factors are not applicable. Yes, I know it is good
to have everything fused. My question was the ease at which the whole
system can be turned off versus the now thing of clamping three terminals
on
a battery lug with a wing nut.
http://tinyurl.com/pclp2f
TYVM. The big copper knife switch clonker which had a clamp, then a knife
switch, then another battery post was $38 at NAPA.
Maye I don't fully grasp your definition of "knife" switch.

Are you talking about something like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_switch
Wouldn't want one of those things within 10 feet of a location that
might have petrol vapours. ( hope I spelled it right for our Canadian
friends)
Actually no although one could argue that vapor and vapour are,
speaking relatively you understand, the same thing.

According to my handy dandy dictionary/thesaurus of all things
Englishy and Etymological, the correct spelling is vapor, but vapour
is acceptable as it is part of the word vapourous (filmy, obscure,
unable to be seen; hidden).

Just doing my part. :)
Yes, but do you own 2 copies of Oxford English Dictionary? If not, you
don't have any right to discuss the proper spelling or the Etymology of
words.
I have both thank you very much.

Altough I understand that they won't be printing any more hard cover
dictionaries. I could be wrong though.

Yes they are obsolete. We awl half speel cheepers now


I'd hate to see the publishers of the OED give up publishing the
hardbound edition. I know the Third Edition has been underway for some
time, and I certainly will buy one when it becomes available. If it
becomes available. The Second Edition has been in print for 20 years and
although there have been "Additions," it would be nice to have the new set.

It is not a good thing that our society seems to be going the route of
"electronically published only." There are millions of important works
that are not available to the public electronically, but are only
available at or through a good library. There are also many downsides to
"studying" or "researching" on the computer when compared to researching
in a proper library. As an example, my wife's research paper for her
doctorate has about 200 bibliographic cites, and the source of most of
these were the LC and various university libraries. Not that much was
available on-line, and yet her subject area is a contemporary "hot
button." When I need to do some serious research for a speech or paper,
I head to the LC.

Every good writer I know has a number of proper dictionaries handy. Many
have the hardbound OED. Some use the on-line version. Some use the CD
version.

Hey...the hardbound OED is an expensive purchase new...why, it sells for
as much as a television set or a video game player and a handful of
games. Maybe that's why so many kids can play video games but are damned
close to functionally illiterate.

Oh...etymology. While the OED is a good source of abbreviated
etymologies, it is not considered *the* definitive work on the history
of words. In fact, no single volume on etymology even comes close to
being definitive.