The time that the Manhattan Project ordered "11,900 brass cocks" from Chicago. Oh my.pic.twitter.com/2YdpW62Py9
@wellerstein It involved doing page layout for NYC subway trains, and the suits in NYC nixed the archaic use of the word.
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@wellerstein Still in use in the UK in plumbing. ‘Stop cock’ is the main domestic water shut off. -
@wellerstein Oh, and steam locomotives have drain cocks. -
@wellerstein And 'sea cocks'. Scuttle a ship by opening sea cocks.
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