I have found with 50 mm spot lights it is a real problem, in the caravan the spot lights are rated 10 - 30 volt DC, in my bathroom rated at 12 volt 50 Hz, and not even sure it is a GU5.3 base, I think the U means bayonet fitting, so it is a G5.3 not a GU5.3 although seen it written many times as GU5.3.
But what happens if I put a bulb marked as low voltage into a 110 volt supply when it is designed for 12 volt, this advert says
but no where on the advert does is state 12 volt, in the Q&A section you get.
They are correct not suitable, as camper van really 13.8 volt not 12 volt DC, but in the main the lamps are marked 50 Hz, so should not be used with a 12 VDC power supply, but likely will work, and likely will also work with a kHz electronic transformer as long as rated zero to max output and not a minimum output over size of bulb. Should be a toroidal transformer but Screwfix don't sell them.
As I said, my hope is that you will never find a consumer product marked/labelled "Low voltage", since if it were 'electrically correct' it would be misunderstood by the vast majority of the general public, or vice versa.
Well, you say nothing can be done because it has already started but you also say people should not be corrected.
I personally disagree with "would've" because it is not accurate and almost unpronounceable. All people do when saying "would have" is drop the aitch (also note - not haitch) so should still write "would have"
American. It is amazing how quickly these things catch on.
Maybe these things will never 'evolve' and be officially accepted but, again, you say people should not be corrected.
Already with us, yes, but not accepted as correct yet supposedly intelligent people in positions of authority start using it - as beginning every sentence with "so".
I think the OED is part of the problem as I mentioned before.
It was you, not I, who started that line of discussion when you wrote ...
... which surely was an acknowledgement that the particular bit of 'evolution' had already happened - so that the most you could hope to do would be to restrict the spread of the evolution that had already occurred.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'not accurate', but whether you agree or disagree with it,, it (and all the other abbreviated forms like it) are widely used, both in speaking and writing - and, as I said, whilst I would not personally call it "almost unpronouncable", the point is that when one does pronounce it, it sounds almost the same as "would of" - which I assume is why some people started writing it as that.
Yes, I realise that it came from America (just as did many of the changes in UK English) - but I still don't know 'how it ["get"] arose'.
Anyone is free to correct people who are using 'sloppy English' if they so wish - and I certainly wouldn't condone it. I suppose it's safe enough from a keyboard, but I'm sufficient of a coward that I would be cautious about who I subjected to such 'correction of sloppy English' on a face-to-face basis
Professional chefs seem experts at that, since everything is ".... off" these days - "fry off", "bake off", "roast off" etc. However, professions and trades have always developed their own 'jargon' (in some cases almost a 'private language'), and I'm not sure whether that also comes into your category of 'misuse of language'.
Well, clearly not good at speaking or writing in the way that you feel they should speak and write. They clearly are very 'influential' in relation to how the general public speak and write, but I don't think you can blame them for a lot of the specifics you've mentioned.
No where does it say it means "laugh out loud" maybe it does not mean that? It is not restricted to tradesmen, and to be frank to say recreation craft directive (RCD) or residual current device (RCD) at first time of coming up in writing I tend to miss, as unless on a narrow boat forum most understand which one I am talking about. If you see CD on the back of a car you don't think it means compact disc, and on a plastic case you don't think it means core diplomat.
We got stuck on that one on a controls job, on a page of a drawing which had been emailed to us there was PrV, PRV, PRv & pRV [I think those are correct but from way back]. A 'pressure relief vent' was associated with both of your listed which were attatched to a 'primary recycling vessel'.
Can it still be called the plumbing trade, organ builders still use lead, but a plumber is a worker of lead, one of there jobs was to repair the roof where lead is used.
I alway knew it as 'Lots Of Love' and struggled for a long time making it fit into messages.
Oh so LOL is a modern 88 from old Q code?
I have always considered 88 to be the femanine version of 73.
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