--- Tim May <butsuri@...>
wrote:
> Costentin Cornomorus wrote at 2003-11-27
> 14:47:50 (-0800)
> > --- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:51:54PM +0000,
> > > Stephen Mulraney wrote:
> > > > Let me get a quick poll of another (to
> my
> > > mind) oddity.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone employ phrases like "The
> water
> > > > will stop immediately the stop-cock is
> > > > turned"?
> >
> > Rarely. I understand it to be British.
>
> It may be, as everyone so far seems to think it
> is, but it doesn't
> occur in my own speech. I'd probably have
> guessed it to be an Americanism.
I've only ever heard it on British television
programs.
> > > First of all, I never hear the word
> > > "stop-cock" over here; it's a "faucet".
> >
> > I wasn't aware that a fawcet, spigot or tap
> in
> > British is "stop-cock"? In the US, a
> stopcock is
> > little doololly you find in chemistry labs
> that
> > allow liquids to flow into or out of tubing,
> > flasks, etc.
> >
>
> Well, it isn't, exactly.
Hence the "?".
> We don't call taps stopcocks, except for the
> one that controls the main water supply to a
> house (or something similar).
Right. That's just a "valve" Leftpondywise.
Padraic.
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