On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:07:33 +0100, Chris J Dixon wrote:

Bill Wright wrote:

It's just plain wrong. It should say, Ay up! When t'red light's on 'old
tha' 'orses.'

I believe that, originally, signs at level crossings said: "Wait while
lights flash".
In Yorkshire, at least, this could certainly be interpreted as "Wait
until lights flash", with obvious consequences, and the wording is
different nowadays.

Parts of Lancashire too. Reminds me of a story from ICL (the "British"
computer company before it was absorbed by Fujitsu), and the design of
New Range (what was to be the 2900) back in 1971:
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At a meeting of the €˜New Range Upper Sub-Range Primitive Interface In
Interpretive Committee, chaired by John Bowthorpe, there was a
lengthy debate one day about the proposed implementation of the SWEQ
(Scan While Equal) and SWNE (Scan While Not Equal) instructions. Near
the end of the meeting, one of the engineers got up and said that he was
happy with the implementation but unhappy with the names of the
instructions. He explained that he came from Oldham and that in parts of
Lancashire €˜while meant €˜until, so that any Lancastrian
engineers and programmers would interpret the instructions in exactly
the opposite way to that intended. An action was duly placed for the
Architects to rule on this.

At the next meeting the chairman came to this action and solemnly
declared that the matter had been duly considered and the instruction
names would remain as they were. It was felt that €˜ICL specifications
could not be written to cater for ethnic minorities.
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