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Andy
Evans wrote:
But the REAL question is, why does a UK based poster posting to a uk
newsgroup choose to call his valves "tubes"?

David.

I speak English, French and Norwegian and some Spanish and Russian, so I
have no intrinsic preference for English though I love the language and
have published 5 books in English. I've also lived abroad in France and
Norway.

This is, however a uk group.


So I'm not going to fly the flag here, guys. There's much more activity
in valves/tubes in the USA than here,

The logic would be to advertise what you have to offer on a usa or
non-national group if that is a reason for your choice of word.

I'm quite happy to use the term which has more international currency
which in this case is "tubes". I'll use the word "valves" as well,
especially to English people who prefer to use it, but generally
speaking I've adapted to the most general usage.

I similarly use "antenna" rather than "aerial" and "radio" rather than
"wireless".

Having said all that I prefer "anode" to "plate" and I still use the
spelling "kathode" because it corresponds to "k".

I did once used to use the German terms as they were what were in the
handbooks for the BWOs I used to use. But I doubt many people here would
want to buy a second hand 300GHz BWO.. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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