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RE: UK to US English

To: "'Randall'" <tr3driver@comcast.net>, "'TR'"
Subject: RE: UK to US English
From: "Michael Marr" <mmarr@nexant.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:20:19 -0600
> Anyone know what the British terms for center punch or prick
> punch are ?
>
> Randall
>

A center punch is a centre punch.  A prick punch is what I would like to
give my supervisor, who is one!

By the way, we sometimes used to refer to center punch marks as "centre
pops," but I don't know that that is universal or if it was just confined to
the company I worked for.


Michael J. Marr, P.E.
Naperville, IL (ex-Tilbury, Essex, England)
1960TR3A




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