OT - Aluminum

Yep that is how it is pronounced.... except I am lazy and call it wooster sauce:)

I'm in the middle of cooking dinner and I noticed that the bottle in the cupboard right now actually calls itself Worcester Sauce, so it's not laziness O, it's just brand placement!! Love C

Now that's funny. The BBC has forgotten how to pronounce it!

=Tamar

LOL -- I had a college roommate who pronounced it, "war-chester-shire" sauce. She consumed it by the gallons. It's very good on Gyoza, btw...I seemed to have picked up her eating habits on that one. yum yum!

Allaya

Richard Eney wrote:

Shilleagh, now that must settle it for fure **!!! However I think I will just stick to calling it "tin foil" much easier . However when it comes to sheeting such as rooking etc I will revert to the Aussie way I suppose.God Bless Gwen

Shilleagh, all three correct by Aussie standards God Bless Gwen

Ok, this is primarily for USA-er's but anyone else having input is surely welcome to respond.... In YOUR part of the country or world, do you call it sheetrock or drywall???? LOL Noreen

"The YarnWright" wrote in news:43507d6d snipped-for-privacy@newsgate.x-privat.org:

In Texas we call drywall - drywall. We call sheetrock - sheetrock.

I guess what I meant is, are the terms INTERCHANGEABLE in TX? In IL and WI, we ALWAYS referred to it at sheetrock, but in TN everyone calls it drywall. Noreen

Hallo, Mirjam! Drywall, sheetrock, is what's used now primarily for interior walls here, instead of the 'old' plasterboard or lathe plastered walls.... Clear as mud?? Big hugs, Noreen who can't sleep tonight.....

These terms are both used here

Els

We call it drywall here, Noreen. But I have heard the term sheetrock before as well.

Matthew has worked with drywall when he was working with construction workers and he absolutely hated the stuff... so did a lot of the other workers. He says if you move it *just* the wrong way it will snap and you have to start all over again with a new sheet of it.

What's worse.... the man who lived in this house before we bought it drywalls for a living, but you sure couldn't tell by the mess he left here..... there are gaps in the recroom, and under a couple of the windows on the main floor.... but all the walls have it on them here, and I'm nervous of hanging any pictures or paintings (and definitely not mirrors) on it, because we've already had a shelf fall in the bathroom that held my towels. We now have the towels housed in a blanket box. :o/

Gemini

Either/both.

sue

We call it gyprock, but builders also use drywall.

Katherine

Yes, in Illinois we DID call it gypsum board.... AND, if memory serves... MOST "sheetrock, drywall, etc" used IN the US

"The YarnWright" wrote in news:43509319 snipped-for-privacy@newsgate.x- privat.org:

Sheetrock comes in sheets with paper stuck on both sides of chalk base. Drywall comes in a bag and is mixed with water and put on wooden walls to make them smooth so you can paper or paint them. We also have drywall that you can spread on the walls of storm cellars to keep moisture and creepy crawlers out. We have a lot of yankees that don't know the difference and call sheetrock drywall. Yankees build tornado rooms above ground inside their houses, Texans build storm cellers.

I guess it all depends are where you are from and what words are commonly used. I've heard of the word "sheetrock", but it's not usually used up here in the great white north. We call it drywall, but that doesn't mean we don't know the difference, all it means is that we use different terminology. The stuff in the pail we call drywall "mud" or "filler". Many years ago when my ex and & I built an 1800 square foot log home by ourselves, I did all the taping, filling and sanding of the drywall interior walls. Beautiful home too - I hated to leave it.

Shelagh