<Audi> Installing STEADIRIC suspension

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <3.0.3.32.19970924070953.007b25b0@swva.net> Brendan writes:

> I think this depends on where you live in part.  To me, and to most people
> I know, 'renew' implies restoring 'newness' to something and re-using it,
> whereas 'replace' means to discard the existing part in favor of a new one,
> or one in better condition.  I can certainly understand your usage, and I
> don't mean to suggest in any way that anybody's usage is more or less
> correct than another's, but we all know that the same word can mean
> different things from region to region, or from country to country.  I'm
> reminded of a day in high school (in the US) when a student visiting from
> England asked a classmate if he could borrow his 'rubber,' which caused
> quite an episode, and nothing further was accomplished by the teacher that
> day.

These are legion - Durex is Scotch tape in Australia, and something different 
in the UK.  In Canada in 1973, I once offered to 'knock up' a young lady for an 
early shift the next morning - the phrase comes from the practice in the north 
of England of getting lamplighters to bang on bedroom windows.  Means something 
different in the USA ...
 
It's a serious issue, though, because there are certain situations where the 
meaning needs to be unambiguous.  The Oxford English Dictionary's first 
definition for 'replace' is 'put back in place', BTW.

-- 
 Phil Payne
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club