On Fri, 15 May 2020 19:41:54 UTC, newshound
wrote:

On 15/05/2020 17:12, Rod Speed wrote:
Commander Kinsey wrote
I was astonished to find Americans actually call plasterboard
"drywall" even if it's on a ceiling!Â* So not a wall!

I'm not astonished or amazed that you are astonished at that, you have
always been that mindlessly obsessive about words.
Daft in the first place to say "drywall", as all walls are dry, unless
made of mud, which is still dry once it's set.

Plastered walls are wet when you are doing the plastering, stupid.

Not usually in America, where they just tape and fill the joints. Hence
"Drywall".

That depends on when. Our house was built in 1960 and has real
plaster over I-forget-what-it's-called-but-but-it-substitutes-for
-laths on the main level and drywall in the basement.

Drywall is sometimes called gypsum board or sheetrock, among other
thngs.

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John Varela