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8th July 2013, 09:50 AM #1
Is it a VICE, VISE, or in Australia a VYCE
Here is an article from Friday 22 December 1939
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Awarded a Dawn Vyce
Also not quite sure what "Machine Shot Practise" was???…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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8th July 2013, 03:45 PM #2Skwair2rownd
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Interesting Piece of history!!
When I strted high school our ww teacher insisted we spell that clamping tool as vise.
The other way -ie. vice - was something evil or bad.
I have 2 vises and several of the other sort!!!
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8th July 2013, 03:54 PM #3
I thought vyce was a classier sort of vice.
Fair Winds
Graeme
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8th July 2013, 03:57 PM #4
VYCE
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.n. 1. (Coopering) A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.
…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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8th July 2013, 06:20 PM #5
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8th July 2013, 06:57 PM #6Jim
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I always thought this site was, "Abandon Spell-Check before entering".
Cheers,
Jim
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8th July 2013, 07:17 PM #7
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8th July 2013, 10:44 PM #8Senior Member
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8th July 2013, 11:34 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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We are still none the wiser? Perhaps ask the lady that used to be on ABC TV series "Can We help"
CHRIS
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9th July 2013, 12:31 AM #10China
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9th July 2013, 08:48 AM #11
In my time amongst the unlettered natives of North America I picked up spelling it as "vise". I have retained that spelling, because I like to distinguish between 'vises' (of which I have several) and 'vices' (of which I have none! )
This sheds some light on the matter, if it's correct:
vice2 US (often), vise [vaɪs]
n
(Engineering / Tools) an appliance for holding an object while work is done upon it, usually having a pair of jaws
vb
(Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) (tr) to grip (something) with or as if with a vice
[from Old French vis a screw, from Latin vītis vine, plant with spiralling tendrils (hence the later meaning)]
So it seems we get the word from French for 'screw', and no-one in the Anglophone world is spelling it correctly. As a Japanese friend of mine once remarked, "bwuddy Ingwish!"...........
Avagooday,IW
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9th July 2013, 08:51 AM #12
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