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In article , Iain Churches
scribeth thus

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...
In article , Iain Churches
wrote:
Every time I visit the UK I am surprised by the way the English language
is changing. "You did good" sets my teeth on edge, but seems to be
common parlance. If you mistakenly say "with whom" instead of "who
with" people look at you as if you have justed landed from Mars!

Tut tut! Everone knows it should be, "You dun good".

:-) Excellent. I shall admonish next time someone says it!

Anyone living overseas who watches BBC World and Sky News cannot fail to
have noticed the large proportion of Scottish news readers and
interviewers. Are they the last people left who can speak proper
English ? :-))

I regret to inform people that I've lived in Scotland for 30+ years.

Do you have a Scots accent? My brother lived in Dundee for quite
a time, he was musical director at the theatre there. He aquired
a delightful Scottish brogue (not sure what the other shoe was
made of:-)

I was much younger than he.
He called me his favourite Tattiebogle"
I was inordinately pleased until I discovered what it meant.


Alternatively, all the Aberdonians may have
migrated south.

Yes. They all seem to be from the East of Scotland.

Iain



Theres a credit controller from "Glasgie" who calls us sometimes and she
has the most lilting lyrical voice I've ever heard:)

Sometimes we have been known to not pay the odd bill in order to be
chased up about it;)))

--
Tony Sayer

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Once upon a time on usenet Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , ~misfit~
wrote:

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa...o/electron.htm

(an http: URL also works, but responds as https:).

The old short-name version now doesn't work.

Damn! There's no link to a page on inductors, a component that I'm
currently trying to increase my understanding of.

Sadly, I can't now make changes to the st-andrews pages as I 'retired'
about ten years ago. I'm still 'retired staff', and can use the
library, etc. But I don't now even have a uni email address. The main
irony here being that I can't even remove my old (now dead) email
address from the pages because access for working on the pages was
tied to my old email account passwords, etc.

Understood.

What is it you want to know about inductors?

Probably nothing I can't find elsewhere - thanks.

When I wrote that I'd recently watched a youtube series [SMPS tutorial] by a
German guy who calls himself The Post Apocalyptic Inventor and in the fifth
part https://youtu.be/a21zh-obKWg he was demonstrating how inductors work
and said that in the next part he'd go into them in more depth and explain
their role in 'boost' DC - DC converters. He never made the 6th part.

I think that I understand enough anyway to suss it out but I quite liked the
way he explained some fairly complex maths in an approachable and easy to
understand way.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

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On Friday, 7 April 2017 10:57:57 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Having just visited Aberdeen recently, I noticed the economy of some of
the dialect.
Instead of 'you know what I mean' being used after every sentence like
some do, it is shortened to 'ken'. Very much appreciated. ;-)

If they're very chatty you get "ken, like".

Ken, but.

Owain