When did brakes become breaks?

[Collaudatore]

Did I miss a memo or something?

"Breaking into a corner"

"Hitting the breaks"

[mybrainhurts]

And avoiding the curbs...

[ZOLLAR]

mybrainhurts said:

And avoiding the curbs...

[Collaudatore]

mybrainhurts said:

And avoiding the curbs...

[anonymous-user]

take a brake

Have a kit kat..

[Matt UK]

When did brakes become breaks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t94NJXCL2SI

[g3org3y]

About the same time we started driving on duel carriageways.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Same as people say stock now instead of standard. What next, gas instead of petrol or trunk instead of boot.

[Papa Hotel]

If you don't break hard enough you'll crash and brake your bumber. Or something. There's probably a more eloquent way to put that.

[g3org3y]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Same as people say stock now instead of standard. What next, gas instead of petrol or trunk instead of boot.

Breaks isn't an 'Americanism'...is it? It's just using the incorrect word.

[Papa Hotel]

g3org3y said:

Breaks isn't an 'Americanism'...is it? It's just using the incorrect word.

He might just mean the slow deaf of da english langwidge. Folks that use Yankisms often don't no the write way.

[mybrainhurts]

Collaudatore said:

mybrainhurts said:

And avoiding the curbs...

WHOOSH......

[r11co]

I would of used my 'breaks' if they worked.

It's called ignorance.

We are now into a second generation that thinks spelling is unimportant because 'computers fix it'...

[mrtwisty]

Alpha Romeo. Anyone found on a PH forum using this spelling should be hunted down and forced to drive a 3 pot 12v corsa for the rest of their life.

[Collaudatore]

Papa Hotel said:

He might just mean the slow deaf of da english langwidge. Folks that use Yankisms often don't no the write way.

Quite!

[mybrainhurts]

mrtwisty said:

Alpha Romeo. Anyone found on a PH forum using this spelling should be hunted down and forced to drive a 3 pot 12v corsa for the rest of their life.

That gets me too. Alpha Roamao, for gawd's sake...

[Collaudatore]

mrtwisty said:

Alpha Romeo. Anyone found on a PH forum using this spelling should be hunted down and forced to drive a 3 pot 12v corsa for the rest of their life.

I thought that was a wind up to annoy Alfa owners?

[Pigeon]

g3org3y said:

Breaks isn't an 'Americanism'...is it?

No, it's an archaism. If you look at official reports of inquiries into railway accidents from Victorian times, the devices for stopping the train are always called "breaks".

The question should really be "when did "breaks" become "brakes"".

[Clint westwood]

When did tyres become tires?

[g3org3y]

Pigeon said:

g3org3y said:

Breaks isn't an 'Americanism'...is it?

No, it's an archaism. If you look at official reports of inquiries into railway accidents from Victorian times, the devices for stopping the train are always called "breaks".

The question should really be "when did "breaks" become "brakes"".

Interesting! Thanks for the info.