u/CrazyJoe29

What do Americans call a meal of fries with battered fried fish. Fish and chips?

I’m Canadian. My dad was from England and my mum was a bit of an Anglophile so we used the terms “fries” and “chips” fairly interchangeably to refer to what an American would likely, exclusively call fries.

But I’m curious is “fish and chips” a common American menu item? Or is it “battered fish with fries” or some variation common? What have you seen on menus?

Always called them potato chips though, never “crisps”🤷‍♂️

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u/CrazyJoe29 — 3 days ago
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Do you include units when discussing dimension values from a drawing in an email?

Let’s say you’re writing an email and you need to tell somebody that the existing ⌀220 [8.661] diameter needs to be increased to ⌀240 [9.449]

Would you write ⌀220 or ⌀220mm. None of the technical drawings I see in my role show units which is rarely a problem, I’ll guess because a mm is 25 times smaller than an inch, but once I’m writing the dimensions it’s slightly more ambiguous.

Final boss: How do you call out a metric thread for a shop that uses inch tooling?

DRILL ⌀0.203 BY .750 DEEP
TAP M6X1 BY .563 DEEP

Probably this is better:

DRILL ⌀0.203”BY 0.750” DEEP
TAP M6X1.0 BY 0.563” DEEP

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u/CrazyJoe29 — 13 days ago