| spamTHISbrp@yahoo.com 2007-06-15, 9:25 am |
| On Jun 14, 9:45 pm, John Doe <j...@usenetlove.invalid> wrote:[color=darkred]
> inlina <inlina gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Very unlikely that is the name in Franklin's home country Norway. Even
> if they don't go by the brand name "vice grips", they wouldn't use a
> generic English term.
>
>
> Highly likely that anyone in a non-English speaking country would
> recognize "vice grips" before they recognized "locking pliers".
>
> That's the issue.
>
> In fact, more people in the world understand what you mean when you
> say "vice grips" than they do when you say "locking pliers" or "lock
> jaw pliers".
>
> From the worldwide USENET archives.
>
> Results 1 - 100 of about 8,930 for " Vise grips "
>
> Results 1 - 100 of 658 for " Locking pliers "
>
> Results 1 - 37 of 37 for " lock jaw pliers "
>
>
> Of course it did.
>
>
> Or "ping-pong" for "table tennis", and so on.
>
> The question was whether someone who claims a good understanding of
> English terminology should know what "vice grips" are.
>
> <Snipped deeper off-topic digression>
>
http://www.googlefight.com/index.ph...cking+pliers%22
Dave
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