calling etymologists was: Tuning & moving (frequently) OT

[Stéphane Collin]

Hello again

In case you might be interested, the french word for shim (only when used particulary in woodworking) is "flipot".  Unfortunately, the verb flipotter, while extensively (and abusely) used for the act of inserting a shim, is not accepted yet, so one should say "mettre, insérer, ou placer un flipot".

Hope I'm not boring (if this happened to be the case, be kind to remind me).

Stéphane Collin.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco@luther.edu>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:44 PM
Subject: calling etymologists was: Tuning & moving (frequently) OT


| At 06:28 11/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
| >Jean,  Shimming consist of inserting an object between two part that
| >are usually together to either fill a gap or adjust spacing
| >relationship or to prevent them from moving. A shim the object that
| >you would put between these two parts.
| >
| >In french I would say shimming means "caler", and the shim would be
| >"une cale".
| >
| >J'espère répondre à votre question.
| >
| >Marcel Carey, RPT
| >Sherbrooke   QC
| 
| 
| I just did a translation search and found that Collins doesn't have an 
| English>French translation, either. (I'll try Langensheit, Roger and 
| Larousse later.)
| 
| However, doing French>English...
| 
| Marcel's cale looks right. I found this under industrie automobile). Seems 
| to fit.
| 
| Déf. :
| Pièce d'espacement (généralement en métal).
| [Office de la langue française, 1986] .
| 
| 
| I'm wondering,  are caul and cale from the same root?
| 
| 
| 
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