The super macro guessing game (5)

CameraMan wrote in post #17523431
I've heard the term spectacles before when speaking of glasses.

Sorry I didn't mean to spark a linguistic debate. Spectacles is closer to standard UK English, the usual word would be glasses but is ambiguous, eye glasses makes no sense in the UK

Will most a macro later

ECC233 wrote in post #17524470
Sorry I didn't mean to spark a linguistic debate. Spectacles is closer to standard UK English, the usual word would be glasses but is ambiguous, eye glasses makes no sense in the UK

Will most a macro later

It's not your fault. when I posted the below comment LookSee's answer to it made me wonder if she knew what I was talking about. Her answer almost sounded like a real answer rather than a continuation of the pun.

Nogo wrote in post #17522945
If I could just find my specs I just might have a chance to see whatever y'all are talk'n about.

I always considered the use of "spectacles" as a word for glasses as a common English usage of the word. I was just wanting to make sure that "specs" wasn't a southern colloquialism that others would not understand. Now I know, apparently this use of spectacles is even more common in Australia than it is here.

Nogo wrote in post #17524490
It's not your fault. when I posted the below comment LookSee's answer to it made me wonder if she knew what I was talking about. Her answer almost sounded like a real answer rather than a continuation of the pun.

I always considered the use of "spectacles" as a word for glasses as a common English usage of the word. I was just wanting to make sure that "specs" wasn't a southern colloquialism that others would not understand. Now I know, apparently this use of spectacles is even more common in Australia than it is here.

In my world, "specs" is short for "specifications", not "spectacles". But "spectacles" or "eyeglasses" (yes, I generally see it as one word rather than two) would be routinely understood.

There is nothing that separates nations like a common language.

Guys everybody have a glass of wine and get on with the thread

Someone could post a macro of a glass of wine........

I guess I could, but it is not my turn.

BasAndrews wrote in post #17525049
There is nothing that separates nations like a common language.

Last night, there was a news report of three zebras that escaped and were running loose somewhere in Brussels in the middle of the town.

The news reporter called them zebras with the "e" being a short "e" rather than a long "e." I had never heard it said that way before. Thought about it; that would be the way to pronounce it phonetically. Then when I looked it up, they had two pronunciations the "American" way with the "e" being long and the "European" way with the "e" being short. I never imagined that such a common word would be pronounced so differently on the two hemispheres.

I was there and it was magical! If anyone wants to jump in, please go ahead. I'm a bit delocalised at the moment. Ed

That Zebra example is just the tip of the iceberg.

As you may know in America Z is pronounced as Zee.
While in most of the rest of the world Z is pronounced Zed

OK ... if no-one wants to jump in, let me try this one. I think it is hard, but it is very hard to judge with you guys! Anyway, the first time I have used Lightroom 6 in anger.

ECC233 wrote in post #17529623
OK ... if no-one wants to jump in, let me try this one. I think it is hard, but it is very hard to judge with you guys! Anyway, the first time I have used Lightroom 6 in anger.

Are these two objects connected by a part of the item not seen?

Indeed they are

A tiny micrometer?

hqqns wrote in post #17529685
A tiny micrometer?

Not tiny, but certainly a micrometer. Over to you.

Apparently not as hard as you thought it was.