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The Breakroom => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: bhowden on May 27, 2021, 02:27:59 PM

Title: A sign of the times....
Post by: bhowden on May 27, 2021, 02:27:59 PM
I blatantly cribbed this from another forum but thought people here might appreciate it:
 


(Assuming lumber prices have gone as crazy where you are as they have here!)

Brian
Title: Re: A sign of the times....
Post by: awemawson on May 27, 2021, 03:50:30 PM
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But OSB isn't Plywood, it's Orientated Strand Board  :clap:

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Title: Re: A sign of the times....
Post by: philf on May 28, 2021, 03:23:46 AM
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But OSB isn't Plywood, it's Orientated Strand Board  :clap:

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But OSB isn't Orientated, it's Oriented. 👍

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Title: Re: A sign of the times....
Post by: awemawson on May 28, 2021, 04:06:45 AM
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Title: Re: A sign of the times....
Post by: mcostello on May 28, 2021, 04:42:05 PM
Could We have Westernized?
Title: Re: A sign of the times....
Post by: russ57 on May 29, 2021, 07:43:55 AM
Apparently oriented is more common in both us and uk, although less so in uk. It apparently derived from church building, with the apse being built to the east.
Lots of discussion about the origin of 'orientated' being derived from 'orientation'.




-russ

Title: Re: A sign of the times....
Post by: Pete W. on June 04, 2021, 05:00:02 AM
Apparently oriented is more common in both us and uk, although less so in uk. It apparently derived from church building, with the apse being built to the east.
Lots of discussion about the origin of 'orientated' being derived from 'orientation'.




-russ
 

There are exceptions.

One that I know a small something about is the parish church at Ironbridge (or should I write 'Coalbrookdale'? ).  I offer the following with little or no authority - it's family hearsay but still ....  A cousin of my late wife was married to the Rector and used to say that she often wondered why the sun shone through the stained glass window during Evensong rather than during Morning Service.  The church is built on a ledge on the steep side of the gorge of the River Severn and the shape of the ledge dictated the orientation of the building.  Furthermore, I seem to remember it being said that, because of lack of space, only the Clergy were buried in the churchyard - the villagers were buried in a nearby cemetery.