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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: Re: Coders Aren't Carpenters
Message-ID: <rdd-1408960935450001@dmn1-33.usa1.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:35:45 -0500
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In article <32113C9A.2875@pacific.net.sg>, "Chris G. Perrott"
<cperrott@pacific.net.sg> wrote:

> James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763 wrote:
> > 
> > In article <4upipi$agd@columbia.acc.brad.ac.uk> J.R.Hey@bradford.ac.uk
> > (JR HEY) writes:
> > 
> > |> Is it just me, or do some people here have a different concept of what a
> > |> carpenter is than I do?
> > 
> > It's possible.  I get the feeling that American and British usage
> > varies.  In American English, a carpenter is someone who puts up the
> > framing of a building.  The person who does the finer work is a cabinet
> > maker.

I've never heard of a "cabinet maker", but them I don't know much about
building. If I were given the phrase "cabinet maker" and asked to guess
what it meant, however, I'd say someone who makes and installs cabinets (=
BE cupboards, IIRC).

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

