Even my kids know what "grounded" means.
They don't get to use the phone or TV for the next three life times...


John Woodgate <j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote:

In message 
<5f5a140eb5cb094bb4d2c477c8c4ad99aa9...@sjc1amfpew04.am.sanm.corp>, 
dated Fri, 29 Feb 2008, "Tarver, Peter" 
writes:

>If the product is deployed internationally, protective earth should be 
>used. I'm not aware of anyone in the US or Canada who would 
>misunderstand this term, if were not called 'ground.'

Very likely, but 'ground' is also used all over the world by technicians 
whose first language is not English but who learned technical terms from 
American books. They are the ones who may well be confused by 'earth'.
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