Mister Ian's Weblog

Category: Job

  • American and British English spelling differences

    We are doing projects on Gathering Centers in Kuwait for Kuwait Oil Company.

    And I’m working here in Kuwait for AMEC with the majority of western coworkers from the UK.

    So is it spelled Gathering Center or Gathering Centre. So with further research, I believe it will follow the British “re” from now on.

    And then how do you spell meter? Or is it metre? Depends where you are from!

    The difference relates only to root words; -er rather than -re is universal as a suffix for agentive (reader, winner) and comparative (louder, nicer) forms. One consequence is the British distinction of meter for a measuring instrument from metre for the unit of measurement. However, while poetic metre is often -re, pentameter, hexameter, etc. are always -er.

    American and British English spelling differences – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    And then there are the Canadian differences also.

  • Ian at work

    This is a few years old. Like about 22 years ago, me hard at work getting my hands dirty. I did the engineering of the whole skid mounted vapour recovery unit for Eagle Pump and Compressor. The unit shipped to near Ponoka where I did the commissioning also.

    Well now I’m back to similar things, but 10 or more times more capacity and I don’t have to get my hands dirty 😉

    Ian at work

    I’m not sure what’s about the glasses. I used to wear contacts, but sometimes probably my eyes were too dry.