inlina inlina gmail.com wrote:

On Jun 17, 7:50 pm, Tom tmar... xtraspam.co.nz wrote:

You don't want to believe everything written on the 'net.
Petersen's never marketed Vise-grips as pliers.
They were sold as wrenches.
Not so?http://tinyurl.com/352sko

True, they were not refered to as pliers or locking pliers 'back in
the day'. However, the current generic term for the tool in the
spotlight is either locking pliers OR lock-jaw pliers.

As we have discovered, they are sometimes refered to as vise-grips or
mole-grips depending on where you are from.

In fact, the vast majority of people in the world understand what you
mean when you say "vice grips". If they don't understand the term
"vice grips", then they probably don't speak English.

Some tangible evidence from the worldwide USENET archives:

Results 1 - 100 of about 8,930 for " Vise grips "

Results 1 - 100 of 658 for " Locking pliers "

Results 1 - 37 of 37 for " lock jaw pliers "

At the end of the day, I have just run a world record time in the
Special Olympics.

Winning anything in the Special Olympics probably would be the most
notable thing you've ever done.

Corey Gibson is just another living dead chronic liar from the in-line
skating group.










CG



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