Re: "write him" was Re: More questions

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 02:47:50PM -0800, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> 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.
Yes.  And precicely that kind of doololy is operating behind the
scenes of your basic faucet/tap, hence the British nomenclature.

And hence one of the examples from one of those collections of what
they call on sci.lang Phoque English ("English Well-Speeched Here" was
the title, I believe): a sign in a hotel restroom that read "To stop drip,
turn cock to right."  Now why didn't *I* think of that?

-Mark