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I normally like to read the Jeff Howwell column in the Telegraph (web
version) but in todays issue he says "British houses have always been
built with timber stud partitions".

My early 70s house has brick or blockwork walls throughout, upstairs
and down. Should these be called something other than partitions, or is
he talking ********?

It depends on your interpretation of what he wrote.

Timber stud partitions (aka walls) have been used in British houses for
centuries - but not to the exclusion of other methods. Thus, British houses
HAVE always been built with timber stud partitions. Not ALL British houses
have been built with timber stud partitions.

Boy babies have always been born to women but not all babies born to women
have been boys.

Thank goodness.

People do tend to assume that readers will understand what they write.
Readers do tend to put their own connotation on anything which could be
ambiguous.

There are many examples of each in newsgroups and this one isn't an
exception.

Mary