The difference between valve and tube

[JeezyMcNuggles]

There is a difference between the valve and the tube. The valve has a sealed glass covering with electrodes inside and lets an amplifier make a tiny voltage big enough to drive a loudspeaker. The tube is an underground railway network in London.

Valves open and close to control material. Tubes transport material.

 

[GoesThump]

But the England/US debate about who talks funnier rages on.

What's that all aboot? Everyone knows we Canadians are the ones that talk funny, eh?

GT

 

[Williethump]

I got no dog in this fight. Brit speak and yank speak both can be obscure or limpid. The 'Trunk' was used in early 'cars' (used by both sides from railway jargon) because it was an actual steamer trunk. Not sure you can store much in a 'boot'. Most of the words on both pond shores work pretty well: 'fender' = 'wing'- makes sense. 'Spanner' vs 'wrench'- again, both work. The jaws span the bolt or nut, you need to wrench the spanner to make it turn. 'Windshield', 'windscreen'- it's a wash. 'Lift' is better than the 4-syllable 'elevator'. 'Flat' is both shorter and more descriptive than 'apartment' since thats how you feel when you walk in and wish you owned a 'house'. Everyone, let's all avoid 'home' and call them 'houses' only parisitic lamprey middlemen profiteer real estate vampires use that fake locution.

 

[AGCurry]

“England and America are two countries divided by the same language.”

- George Bernard Shaw

 

[Steve Dallman]

The difference between valves and tubes is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.

 

[Iristone]

IIRC the technical name is 'thermionic valve' (hence 'valve'), and it is sealed in a vacuum tube (hence 'tube').
In China we call it an 'electronic tube', or affectionately 'bladder'.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

When riding the Underground, at each stop it is announced “Mind the gap!” Now, if they would do this American a favor, could they add “Look right before crossing the street!” would be a good thing.

I look both ways even on a one way street. Axiom of survival: Always assume people are idiots.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

I have neither car nor automobile. Screens aren't always mesh, and boots aren't always tall, either.

I just hope you don't boil meat

 

[Smooth_bass88]

In the United States, they've been called vacuum tubes for about a century.

 

[lermgalieu]

Gosh, English is tricksy.

But not so much that we’ve started putting the emphasis on the first syllable of “pecan”.

This is also a facet of southern speech. My mom does it (Kentucky)

 

[dbsfgyd1]

I look both ways even on a one way street. Axiom of survival: Always assume people are idiots.

+1!!! Me included…

 

[GretschWretch]

What's that all aboot? Everyone knows we Canadians are the ones that talk funny, eh?

GT

But the Welsh have you all beat.

 

[rollie 55]

But the Welsh have you all beat.

very true my family are welsh and they sure have me beat

 

[GretschWretch]

very true my family are welsh and they sure have me beat

One of my reading/research interests is British WWI poets, many of whom lived adjacent Wales, in the Cotswolds/Malvern area. Edward Thomas wrote a travelogue titled Wild Wales, which sent me back to a book of the same title written by George Borrow a half century earlier (Borrow's book in its entirety is available on Google Books). Thomas's is more a naturalist's book, with detailed descriptions of flora and fauna. Borrow's book has some of that but is mostly people and places, which means names, and the names just destroy me. It would not surprise me that in the Welsh version of Scrabble each player gets thirty alphabet tiles instead of the seven the rest of us must make do with.

I do know that the place names in "Bells of Rhymny" are mostly Welsh.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

What's that all aboot? Everyone knows we Canadians are the ones that talk funny, eh?

GT

Ooo yaah

 

[Black Out Jazz]

Gosh, English is tricksy.

We’ve been watching so much British cooking shows that we now habitually pronounce the “h” in “herbs”. But not so much that we’ve started putting the emphasis on the first syllable of “pecan”.

In Southeast Georgia Pecan country, they say pee can. Not pa con.

 

[byacey]

I have neither car nor automobile. Screens aren't always mesh, and boots aren't always tall, either.

Try and stuff a spare tire and jack into an average sized boot.

 

[byacey]

Gosh, English is tricksy.

We’ve been watching so much British cooking shows that we now habitually pronounce the “h” in “herbs”. But not so much that we’ve started putting the emphasis on the first syllable of “pecan”.

I never did understand why some people don't pronounce the h in herbs.

 

[rollie 55]

One of my reading/research interests is British WWI poets, many of whom lived adjacent Wales, in the Cotswolds/Malvern area. Edward Thomas wrote a travelogue titled Wild Wales, which sent me back to a book of the same title written by George Borrow a half century earlier (Borrow's book in its entirety is available on Google Books). Thomas's is more a naturalist's book, with detailed descriptions of flora and fauna. Borrow's book has some of that but is mostly people and places, which means names, and the names just destroy me. It would not surprise me that in the Welsh version of Scrabble each player gets thirty alphabet tiles instead of the seven the rest of us must make do with.

I do know that the place names in "Bells of Rhymny" are mostly Welsh.

This photo is of me when i was 16 the sign i am sitting under is the name of the village on the isle of Anglesey north wales my family are from Bangor not to far from there

 

[gln1955]

Try and stuff a spare tire and jack into an average sized boot.

Isn't that what jackboots are for?