Hmmmmmmmmm! Seems that I've really started something. My main hobby is radio
comms, and the letters OZ are the Call letters for radio and the prefixes for
aircraft registration etc for Denmark. So when someone says "I'll meet you
in OZ on Wednesday." I'll immediatly jump on an aircraft and head for
Denmark. So to speak.
The use of NZ and UK are OK as they are the first letters of those countries
names. I have always been the od one out in most groups I frequent either as
having no interest in sport or being too technical on the specific subject.
What other people use in their venaccular references within their own specific
groups is of little interest to me so can we get back to the real interest of
small scale live steam loco's. I'm sure they are more interesting than my
hangups on the use or misuse of the various variations of the language we call
English.
73, John de VK2XGJ
General Manager
Elk River & Cheat Mountain Railroad
----- Original Message -----
From: "James S. Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: oz
> Hard to see offense when believe some of the email addresses end in .OZ.
> Some from New Zealand use .NZ and some United Kingdom use .UK Jim Burns
>
> Chuck Walters wrote:
> >
> > >please don't refer to Australia as Oz.
> >
> > John,
> >
> > Will respect your wishes, but I know of several small scale live steamers
> > who belong to this list and others that refer to their location as OZ.
Hard
> > to think of it as a derogatory term when the folks that live there use it
> > themselves.
> >
> > My Best,
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > Charles W. Walters
> > Twin Lakes Railway CEO
> > http://home.twcny.rr.com/twinlakesrw
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Harry Wade
> > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 4:11 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam
> > Subject: Re: Steam oil
> >
> > At 07:07 PM 12/9/02 +1100, you wrote:
> > >please don't refer to Australia as Oz.
> >
> > John,
> > I have belonged to the www Model Engineering List for about ten
years
> > which is populated by a number of Australians, all of whom regularly and
> > invariably refer to their location as Oz, I think more as an expedient
> > acronym as anything else, and none of them have ever mentioned that it
> > might be thought of as derisive. This isn't to say that you shouldn't,
> > that's for you to decide, but I was surprised to hear someone say that it
> > was. I thought of it as a rather lighthearted reference.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Harry Wade
> > Nashville, Tn
> >
> >
>
>
