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Curly
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Birds nest in the bushes.
Shafts and such spin in bushings.
Some yank here decided to use the term "bushings" for the metal spacey sizer thingy doodads a long time ago.
You Brits had to be different and call them "bushes". Revenge for the colonies being revolting or some such.
Class dismissed.
Pete
Shafts and such spin in bushings.
Some yank here decided to use the term "bushings" for the metal spacey sizer thingy doodads a long time ago.
You Brits had to be different and call them "bushes". Revenge for the colonies being revolting or some such.
Class dismissed.
Pete
Singularly it is a Bush, the plural is bushes. God knows what a bushing is?!
Just a couple of examples. There are though plenty of UK companies that get it wrong.
As the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain I expect the very first Bush was likely invented - and named here. :wink:
Just a couple of examples. There are though plenty of UK companies that get it wrong.
As the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain I expect the very first Bush was likely invented - and named here. :wink:
alan morrison
Fellow
It's bush or bushes if you speak English,
bushing if you speak Americanese/ Canadanianese.
bushing if you speak Americanese/ Canadanianese.
wm460
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Just to confuse the matter further the French call these bushings,
Set 11 Bushings 3/8 " 6 Sections Long 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 MM Pro | eBay
Wonder what the seppo's call these.
Set 11 Bushings 3/8 " 6 Sections Long 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 MM Pro | eBay
Wonder what the seppo's call these.
Shrubs, oooops sorry, wrong bushes.
Bush is a noun. Bushing is a verb and is the act in the present tense of using a bush to, well, bush something. Therefore bush is a verb as well as a noun.
As clear as mud, eh?
Translate is also a verb. Translating is the act in the present tense of trying to decipher the utter nonsense into which the Americans seem to delight in turning our language, (whist at the same time trying to claim that we got it wrong in the first place)
(oops, did I say that out loud?)
As clear as mud, eh?
Translate is also a verb. Translating is the act in the present tense of trying to decipher the utter nonsense into which the Americans seem to delight in turning our language, (whist at the same time trying to claim that we got it wrong in the first place)
(oops, did I say that out loud?)
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Curly
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I'm lucky I guess. I speak both English and American. That makes me bilingual. 
Pete
Pete
Bush is a noun. Bushing is a verb and is the act in the present tense of using a bush to, well, bush something. Therefore bush is a verb as well as a noun.
As clear as mud, eh?
Translate is also a verb. Translating is the act in the present tense of trying to decipher the utter nonsense into which the Americans seem to delight in turning our language, (whist at the same time trying to claim that we got it wrong in the first place)
(oops, did I say that out loud?)
"Darn tootin" you're right
alan morrison
Fellow
I'm lucky I guess. I speak both English and American. That makes me bilingual.
Pete
You forgot to include Gibberish!!!
Terry Q
Fellow
What a delightful conversation. Let's not start comparing how we identify automobile components. 
When I'm teaching I say "These are Bushes or Bushings depending who you talk to, but life is too short for this petty tosh!"
Same with the CA / Melamine finish twaddle. I show how to do both when people book full pen turning courses and let them make their own mind up, as I do with drilling on a pillar or the lathe!
Same with the CA / Melamine finish twaddle. I show how to do both when people book full pen turning courses and let them make their own mind up, as I do with drilling on a pillar or the lathe!
Just a bit of fun Neil, just a bit of fun.
I'm going to close this thread however, as I have every respect for our American colleagues, many of whom are members here, and I don't want this thread to descend into something it shouldn't be. At the end of the day you're right though. Bushes or bushings? Who really cares, and after all, we ALL know what we mean, whichever word is used in whichever country.
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