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Post by TonyDunkley on Jul 14, 2017 14:03:14 GMT
Whenever I want to fill something with clean, fresh water then I invariably get it from a tap. Can anyone explain why taps for supplying drinking water for boats are not 'taps' any more, and why they are called - "water points" ? Yes. Oh I see, well a tap is a subset of a waterpoint. Of course the tap is the bit you connect to, you "turn on the tap" you don't "turn on the water point". A water point has a tap but also includes the post with locking flap, the mooring rings or bollards, the signage. Occasionally there is just a tap poking out of a wall etc, whereupon it's known as ....wait for it ... a tap! In that case, why, back in the late 1950's and early 1960's did British Waterways start nailing up notices saying "WATER POINT" next to all the lockside taps which were always situated on an outside wall or a wooden post, and which working boat crews filled the cans from while the lock was leveling off ? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 14:46:45 GMT
Whenever I want to fill something with clean, fresh water then I invariably get it from a tap. Can anyone explain why taps for supplying drinking water for boats are not 'taps' any more, and why they are called - "water points" ? For the purpose of my OP it is a water point where 2 taps are fitted. I hope that helps..  |
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Post by dyertribe on Jul 14, 2017 15:22:26 GMT
Well "tap" could be seen as an instruction leading to a water induced act of violence.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 15:26:58 GMT
I was told the solution to water on the brain was a tap on the head.
Boom boom.
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Post by IainS on Jul 14, 2017 19:07:54 GMT
A water point can have a sign, and water point sounds better when you intend to write on that sign, "water point, mooring for 20 mins, and a fine facilities charge for every 10 mins after". Fixed that for you (my bold)  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 10:16:26 GMT
I would not take kindly to someone arriving and plugging in to the standpipe I am using. First come first served. Get out of bed earlier. Or fill up after 9pm when the fossils (95% of canal boaters are over the age of 60) have retired with their Horlicks and Complan. So how old are you, you cantankerous curmudgeon? Who upset you this morning? I'm 61 1/2. |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 15, 2017 13:44:05 GMT
Not quite '57 varieties'. geddit??!! |
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