[SEL] Widowmaker

[Peter Scales]

That goes for British English too, mostly.  We Brits don't use "barrack" a
lot any more -  barracks are somewhere that soldiers live.  We are still
fond of candy floss too.  I have never heard of a Christmas beetle, rhough.


     Pete
-- 
Peter Scales  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com 
> [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of 
> Bob W7AVK
> Sent: 13 December 2007 23:16
> To: The SEL email discussion list
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Widowmaker
> 
> George and List - Check out http://www.ibhistory.com/dialect1.htm for 
> translation.  About half way down.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob R
> Central WA USA
> 
> Best, George wrote:
> > Edd,
> > 
> > What's a "railway sleeper"?  I can usually keep up pretty 
> well with the
> > down under jargon, but "railway sleeper" is new to me and isn't
> > something I would think you'd cut with a motorized saw.
> > 
> > George
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
> > [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf 
> Of Edd Payne
> > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:32 PM
> > To: The SEL email discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [SEL] Widowmaker
> > 
> > HMMM.I been scratchin something to stop itching.Guess I got 
> it wrong.
> > There are a lot of these saws here in OZ and are still in 
> regular use in
> > this area.Hargans and Mobilco are two that come to mind.Hargans  was
> > from a town north of here called Coolah.From memory there 
> was an article
> > about him and his development of this saw in an old issue of TOMM.
> > Blokes around here that have cut railway sleepers use 
> nothing else and
> > still do.They regularly come up  for sale at local 
> auctions.I watched a
> > bloke at a show at Gilgandra a town north of here doing  
> wood sculpture
> > using one of these and it was amazing to watch .He was an absolute
> > artist.
> > 
> > EDD PAYNE
> > 
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