Easy plug wiring

[Nozzle]

Brown for live you say? That'll be because if you touch it, notionally, you'll get charred and brown

Less so with blue.

Nozzle

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I've always remembered it since secondary school since I found it odd that blue is neutral (when I think of brown as a neutral shade) and that brown is live (when I think of blue as the 'colour' of electricity)...

Brown is the colour of earth.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Port Out Starboard Home when sailing across the Atlantic meant you had a cabin facing the sunny south ( if home was in the UK )

I thought it meant you had a shady cabin when sailing to and from India?

I hope this doesn't come as too much of a disappointment to either of you:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-is-the-origin-of-the-word-posh

 

[stillp]

Indeed. The COED states:
WORD HISTORY
Posh is first recorded in the early 20th century. Its origin is unknown: it may come from the obsolete thieves' slang word posh, which meant either 'money' or 'a dandy'. There is no basis for the popular theory that posh is an acronym of port out starboard home, referring to the choice of more expensive berths, out of the heat of the sun, on ships between England and India.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/port-out-starboard-home.html

 

[diry]

Brown is the colour of earth.

Damn

I'm going to have to take extra care next time I rewire a plug now - that being said, I once acquired an old 'vintage' lamp where someone had wired the (black) neutral to the earth pin - I suppose coal is black and comes from the earth.

 

[oldsparkyuk]

Brown is the colour of earth.

For someone looking at this who knows little thats a bad post.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Red rhymes with dead, which is the opposite of live.

 

[Colin Brenton]

BLue --> Bottom Left
BRown --> Bottom Right

Simples