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Growing up we called kerosene coal oil,used it for heating the house, cooking on a coal oil range and lighting with lamps.We had one lamp that had a mantle and would put out a good light.I wonder about the english name of parafine for kerosene.Also do you know what these english words refer to ,suprised me at first speaking of a car as being a drop top?
 
kerosene = coal oil = paraffin.
We have one of those Aladdin lamps here too. Rescued it from an old lady who thought it should be torn apart and have a light bulb installed.
It uses a round wick and kerosene flame to heat a mantle white hot for bright clear light similar to a 60W incandescent. Similar idea to a naptha gas Coleman camping lantern.
The almish and menonites regularly use the Aladdins around here.
The British are a funny bunch. They call french fries, chips. The hood of the car the bonnet, the trunk the boot. They refer to a truck as being a lorry. Tucker is supper. Wellingtons are rubber boots. At least the British beer is good once it's chilled to proper drinking temps.
 
There is such a thing as coal oil. There was a cannel coal mine near Cloverport Ky. on the Ohio river. Cannel coal is a soft waxy substance that can be lit with a match,and contains an oil that burns with little or no smoke.It must have been quite an operation as a narrow guage railroad was built to the mines in Victoria from Cloverport. The mines were named after Queen Victoria as it was an English mining company.Coal oil was extracted from this coal for lighting purposes. Joe
 
How's this for a suprise?? What gives off the intense white light in the Coleman mantle is a radioactive substance (maybe an isotope of Uranium?). Before discovering this I frequently carried an extra mantle in my pack or back pocket as I worked in a remote Boy Scout camp for 3 full summers. We used the Coleman lanterns every night. I discovered this "factoid" a few years later while working as a high school physics teacher and playing around with a geiger counter and common substances. The mantle really sets off the geiger counter.

Now who wanted to go back to those "good old days"??

Paul in MN
 
a combine is a 'header' and a header is a 'front' in aussie and probably european terms and i believe an open end wrench is a spanner. a light bulb is a globe, which makes sense. jim
 
It's thorium. The chemical properties of the metal is what causes the glow. Nothing nuclear is happening to make light.
One night we had a fire alarm at a main output transformer. The firechief asked for a torch, asked a 2nd time then insisted somebody get him a torch. A few minutes later a firefighter in full bunker gear and scba pack appeared pushing a oxy-acetylene cutting torch cart.
The Chief turned around and seen the cart.........There was a brief pause then the screaming started.
 
LOL, and had he more correctly asked for an electric torch, I could just imagine the guy rolling in an arc welder with that little carbon arc accessory thingy. "What we have here is a failure to communicate." LOL
 
Yeah....and a damned flashlight is called a Torch....talk about archaic!

Cookies are called biscuits. Biscuits?? Geezus!

I say there old chap...pass the chocolate chipped biscuits!
 
Actually, I find it quite smashing!

Oh yes.....I don't know about the Brits, but the Aussies call being sick.....as being a bit Crook.

"I woke up feeling a bit crook, so I lit me parafine torch and trundled off to find me tin of asper-ine. Then, I set meself down and had tea and a biscuit. Feeling a bit more chipper, I managed to dress and button me waistcoat (vest), don me hat and greet the new day."
 
Never heard tell of "Nip & Chips" around here. "Fish and Chips" are a big deal on Fridays.There are several distinct regions across the country where such a term may exist.
Down east in the isolated areas of the Maritimes possibly. There are still some old world areas where the some seniors speak defunct British Isle Gailic and Welsh languages.
Around here the bloodlines tend to be Scottish based with some German and Dutch. The culture is getting Americanized however through the media. Rare to hear anybody say "Aye" instead of yes.
 
Listen to Thomas the Train dvd or vhs. I like it when the Engine says "Rubbish" in his English broq. Spent an Evening with some 1st Generation English Americans. It is very catchy I was speaking the Kings English before the evening was done. gobble
 
The Aussies call the Convertible top on a car the bonnet. That would get confusing if an Aussies car broke down in England.
 
My grandpa always made me soak my foot in coal oil after I stepped on a nail or stubbed my toe and tore it open. Never did get any infections as I remember. I NEVER wore shoes as a kid ( until late teens ) unless forced/had to or below freezing. Even then I'd go outside barefoot. Anyway I can remember the smell of that stuff and it didn't smell like the kero of today. He always kept his axes and hammers soaking in it to keep the heads tight. He also kept a can of what he called white gas. He got it down at Miss Georgia's general store in Upatoi,GA were they hand pumped gasoline until the early seventies. ...Randy
 
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