1 word/ words nouns
1 word/ words nouns
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Ok, everytime we do cad drawings and label stuff we try to be consistent. Some of our engineers use:
Crawl space or Crawlspace
Ridge line or Ridgeline
Which one is correct?
I am sure there are plenty more.
Crawl space or Crawlspace
Ridge line or Ridgeline
Which one is correct?
I am sure there are plenty more.





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Don
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Water Main
Is that right?
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I'm surprised no-one has chimed in with a rule from Fowler or Oxford or whatever. Surely the Queen of England must have 6 or 7 rules (each with exceptions) covering this situation. Usually there's an abundance of that type of advice here.
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Pipe work
Flowmeter
Flow meter
Setpoint
Set point
Annoys me every time I have to choose one, and I can never remember which I chose last time so consistency becomes a bit of a problem!
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But the irritation value of seeing the red underline certainly lets me know which evrsion I prefer.
Once away from Bill's programs, you don't have spell-checker?
AH! the "-".
Back to "Eats, shoots and leaves" !!
I'm sure this was discussed.
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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JMW
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To me ammeter is a word, but not amperemeter. It should be ampere meter or amp-meter. A lunch room sounds and reads better than lunchroom. So does a flow meter than a flowmeter. For some reason voltmeter is accepted as a word, to me it should be volt meter. Or use hyphens volt-meter or man-hour.
But I do agree that both (or all three, inlcuding hyphenation) forms are accepted and have not heard anyone complain. Being consistent is nice. Again, I am also a beleiver in conveying a clearer message than trying to be a purist.
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(Fun with Wiki: looks like most European languages go for variations on the theme of "amperemeter"; still no "ampmeter" though.)
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In fact a wikipedia says: "An ammeter is a measuring instrument used to measure the flow of electric current in a circuit. Electric currents are measured in amperes, hence the name. The word "ammeter" is commonly misspelled or mispronounced as "ampmeter" by some."
Go figure.
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Just do a google search and on the first page all references including wikipedia, encyclopedia Britannica and Duke University show up, even defining an "ammeter".
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IMO, it is "ammeter" which is the "commonly mispelled & pispronounced" term. I think it has been used for so long & so often that it has become accepted as being correct. I often use it myself, but it just makes more sense that amp-meter (with or without the hypen) would be the more correct version.
Will we will soon see volmeter (sans 't') being adopted?
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The grace is in accepting what has been accepted for decades in a language and not try changing established norm for "no reason". One can try, however, I have no problem with that either. Just declaring death of a live item does not kill it.
Now one may ask: Can a item be "live"?
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"Ammeter" has apparently been around since the 1880s. I think that rates above "commonly misspelled and mispronounced". "Ammeter" was, if anything, a contraction of "amperemeter", not "ampmeter". There's an online version of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica that uses the term "ammeter". If that ain't official, I don't know what is.
Hg
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Majority rules!
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Incidentally even that is inflated as amp meter is a valid unit of something to do with coils.
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Greg Locock
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Oh well, can't win em all.
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