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the Brits say it tongue and groove, but our favourite Yank has it as tongue in groove. Who's right?
My stepfather is a carpenter (and he DOES call himself that), and a USn, and he has always said tongue AND groove (or, t-and-g, more familiarly), and he considers IN incorrect.
He also says rabbet and clamp, and has not encountered the Britforms of those two things, but I want to say that "rebate" is also a term in Classical architecture, but I don't have my dictionary here.
Also, to continue TEd's aside, my fractional math is also horrible, so I like decimals, too. However, my stepfather adds, subtracts, divides and multiplies complex fractions in his head as easily as I can manipulate integers. It's quite the parlor trick.
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Hammering transpondently
shanks 06/22/2004 7:02 PM ![]()
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Faldage 06/22/2004 8:21 PM ![]()
Dado:
TEd Remington 06/23/2004 1:24 PM ![]()
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Buffalo Shrdlu 06/23/2004 1:41 PM ![]()
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Father Steve 06/23/2004 6:58 PM ![]()
(e)BAYO
TEd Remington 06/23/2004 10:21 PM ![]()
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TEd Remington 06/23/2004 10:18 PM ![]()
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Buffalo Shrdlu 06/23/2004 10:38 PM ![]()
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Wordwind 06/24/2004 9:15 PM ![]()
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belMarduk 06/26/2004 12:51 AM ![]()
Do-dah, do-dah.
musick 06/26/2004 6:23 PM ![]()
Re: Do-dah, do-dah.
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Flatlander 06/25/2004 12:26 PM ![]()
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Faldage 06/25/2004 2:16 PM
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