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Author Message Lisa Goodwin Robbins, RA, CCS, LEED ap Senior Member Username: lgoodrob Post Number: 353 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 05:32 pm:    We just had an Architect ask for "turncoat" metal. Do you think they picked a color called "Benedict Arnold" too? - Edward J Dueppen, RA, CSI, CCS, LEED AP Senior Member Username: edueppen Post Number: 51 Registered: 08-2013 Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 06:32 pm:    My all-time favorite, besides the all-too common "support angels", is "fur bearing wall". Chris Grimm, CSI, CCS, SCIP, LEED AP BD+C Senior Member Username: chris_grimm_ccs_scip Post Number: 419 Registered: 02-2014 Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 07:32 pm:    Break metal David R. Combs, Assoc. AIA, CSI, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: davidc Post Number: 8 Registered: 02-2015 Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 07:47 pm:    Too many over the years to recall them all, but I found these to be some of the more amusing ones: Laundry shoot. Firestop puddy. Steel angle lentils. Break metal is one of the most common. David R. Combs, Assoc. AIA, CSI, CCCA, LEED AP Associate Principal Technical Director David E Lorenzini Senior Member Username: deloren Post Number: 180 Registered: 04-2000 Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 08:35 pm:    Can't strip David Lorenzini, FCSI, CCS Architectural Resources Co. anon (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 07:46 pm:    Trash Shoots Michael Chusid, RA FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: michael_chusid Post Number: 421 Registered: 10-2003 Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 10:28 am:    "The Bidding Documents shall become the Contract Documents upon execution of the Contractor." Michael Chusid, RA FCSI CCS 1-818-219-4937 www.chusid.com www.buildingproduct.guru Paul Sweet (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 12:55 pm:    These may be more regional dialect than actual misspelling: Footer Masonary Chimbley Guest (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 12:59 pm:    I caught that the room tag for "Public Cafe" was missing the "L" once. I also pointed out "Shool" on the drawing cover page for a new K-12 School ... embarrassing. J. Peter Jordan Senior Member Username: jpjordan Post Number: 1053 Registered: 05-2004 Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2018 - 10:41 am:    I once saw a note for a "flog pole" on drawings for a middle school. J. Peter Jordan, FCSI, AIA, CCS, LEED AP, SCIP Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2166 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2018 - 01:31 pm:    I remember a "repelling wall" on a fire department training building. Ellis C. Whitby, PE, CSI, AIA, LEED Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 408 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Monday, September 10, 2018 - 07:13 pm:    When I was a freshman in high school I recall that there was a "repelling wall" around the senior girls. Brett Scarfino (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 10:57 am:    On the cover of shops, big letters at top of page - "CFLOORAND, OH". At least they got the state right. Amusing word choice in a set of overseas curtain wall shop drawings: "Pyrotechnics Hole". Intended to mean "access hole". Steven Bruneel, AIA, CSI-CDT, LEED-AP, EDAC Senior Member Username: redseca2 Post Number: 659 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 04:49 pm:    I was reviewing the scope of Site Furnishings with the Landscape Architect for a University Student Housing project via email and they provided a list of items: Benches, Chairs, Tables, Basketball Hoops, Shade Structures, Corn Holes. Hmmm, what is a Corn hole? I looked over my shoulder before I googled Corn Hole, afraid of what might pop up on my screen. No worries, merely the target for a bean bag toss game. I recall searching for the term "Metal Studs" back in the 1990's, in the "Ask Jeeves" ages, well before Google. The first thing I opened was an image of some young men wearing giant Mohawk hair, fancy cowboy boats, big electric guitars, and nothing else. This was in the simple time years before SSMA thought they needed a website. Margaret G. Chewning FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: presbspec Post Number: 308 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2018 - 01:31 pm:    Altho’ not a spelling error on the drawings, in a project meeting with the assistant librarian for the expansion of the ODU library, we were discussing “flashing” when the librarian started to blush with a strange look on her face. I had to take her aside and explain what construction flashing really is. Ed Storer Senior Member Username: ed_storer Post Number: 24 Registered: 05-2009 Posted on Saturday, August 31, 2019 - 02:34 pm:    I find that many participants in forums like this one (I know it should be "fora" - but so few have studied Latin) are "homonym-challenged" and "Break Metal" is phonetically correct, but is used by drafters that have been told "Brake Metal" but never saw a bending brake. I could go on, but homonyms seem to be a problem for those who learned by "Hooked on Phonics" instead of a rigorous spelling and vocabulary curriculum. The spell-check feature is something that I tend to rely on, but it doesn't recognize "closer" and suggests "closure" and so forth. I guess that's why I'm a specifier and not a production architect. Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2195 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Saturday, August 31, 2019 - 03:26 pm:    While I never studied Latin, I've picked up some in my years of reading just about everything I could get my hands on, so "fora" would have only confused me for a second or two. But yeah, homonyms can "getcha" if you're not careful. (Like you're, your, there, their, they're...and other similar words). The first time I came across the word "arris", I thought it was a spelling error. Good thing I thought to look it up BEFORE I sent the documents out with my correction to "arise"! Dan Helphrey Senior Member Username: dbhelphrey Post Number: 37 Registered: 12-2018 Posted on Tuesday, September 03, 2019 - 02:01 pm:    According to Strunk & White, "forums" and "fora" are both acceptable in English. I did residential plan check for a couple years, and at least 80% of the drawings had a room labeled "dinning." Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2197 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, September 03, 2019 - 02:05 pm:    A room in which you can make all the noise you can! So many houses allow noise in all the rooms - what a boon to parents! Louis Medcalf, FCSI, CCS Senior Member Username: louis_medcalf Post Number: 108 Registered: 11-2010 Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 04:17 pm:    I reviewed electrical drawings some time ago that noted what the "mountain height" was for some wall sconces. Melissa J Aguiar Senior Member Username: melissajaguiar Post Number: 10 Registered: 09-2015 Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 04:26 pm:    Louis, You win! You have my vote! I had to share this one with everyone around my office while cackling!!! HA! Marc Chavez Senior Member Username: mchavez Post Number: 527 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 04:34 pm:    here is one that is NOT a spelling error but I thought it was: I was alerted by staff of a typo throughout a particular electrical section for "contactor" I thought oh yes "contractor" misspelled...but ask to see the section... "the electrical contactor..." and it took me a few minutes to see the context.. OH! not a misspelling after all... see definition below A contactor is an electrically-controlled switch used for switching an electrical power circuit. A contactor is typically controlled by a circuit which has a much lower power level than the switched circuit, such as a 24-volt coil electromagnet controlling a 230-volt motor switch. Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2201 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 04:40 pm:    Whatever would we all do each day were it not for the occasional chuckle or laugh-out-loud experience provided by these "errors"? Marc Chavez Senior Member Username: mchavez Post Number: 528 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 04:52 pm:    My wife was adjudicating a trial this week of a man accused of wearing a human skull on a chain around his neck (note: you cannot go around carrying human body parts ..except your own) so....as the trial was to finish the next day I asked if there was any ex"skull"patory evidence...nuk nuk nuk...she said....No . he was found guilty. Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2202 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 04:56 pm:    Groan...