[Dx-qsl] Fwd: postal increase

[ALAN ZACK]

Excuse me whilst I raise the bonnet of my LBC motorcar to look for a petrol
leak. I may need a small spanner or mole wrench that I keep in the boot or
in the cubby box with my torch. I think I will check the connections of the
accumulator and the dynamo at the same time. Maybe I have a bad earth
connection. Such is the The Prince of Darkness system. Sometimes the bulbs
in the fascia blink. I will need my crosshead to open it. I also have small
dents in the wing and nose I want to fix. Also I need to fix the hood,
sometimes it leaks in the rain. And my rev counter, it also quit working so
I don't know my tickover speed. But I have to be careful; I don't want to be
a wanker. I may need to use the Tube to get to the Motoring Store so I will
be sure to mind the gap. I just have to look for the roundel and take the
lift to the platform.

TTFN, Alan, K7ACZ, a former owner of a 1957 MGA 1600, Triumph TR3 (both with
side curtains) and a bug eye (frogeye) Sprint

-----Original Message-----
From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of StevekZ2i
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:29 AM
To: Peter Dougherty
Cc: <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Fwd: postal increase

I wonder what Y'all make of Y'all. Of course, the plural of y'all is "all
y'all" (not to be confused with youse guys). ;-)

73 de steve, kz2i
(a Yankee stuck in Dixie)




On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:09, "Peter Dougherty" <w2irt at verizon.net> wrote:

> Probably the same reason we drop the "u" in colour, flavour, odour, etc
and
> also why a headline might read "a drug arrest" rather than "a drugs
arrest."
> - And for the same reason that in the previous sentence, we use double
> quotes rather than single and put the punctuation inside the quote marks.
I
> would have to say it's just the way the language evolved over the last
> 150-200 years and that we likely dropped those extra letters as a form of
> brevity. My question along those lines would be why you brits name a car's
> luggage space after a piece of winter footwear <grin>? In reading a good
> degree of news from various U.K. sites, the one thing that really
distracts
> me is the British use of the letter s where we use a z. Privatise,
stylize,
> etc.
> 
> 
> ------
> 
> - pjd
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Tom GM4FDM
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 6:24 AM
> To: dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Fwd: postal increase
> 
> This always bugs me - the US usage of the word MATH.
> 
> [pjd] <snip>
> 
> Why to US people use the word MATH?   I am not being derogatory, just
> interested....
> 
> 
> Tom
> GM4FDM
>