Fuel outage at Manchester airport EGCC Saturday 11
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If I go to the supermarket and there isn't any bread is that a "bread outage"?
What about nothing to watch on TV? A TV outage?
I think using "outage" is a grotesque language outage.
What a hideous expression!
Presumably there wasn't any fuel available for a while? Non-native English speakers would understand that...
What about nothing to watch on TV? A TV outage?
I think using "outage" is a grotesque language outage.
What a hideous expression!
Presumably there wasn't any fuel available for a while? Non-native English speakers would understand that...
There's a whole thread on Jet Blast that started off with people railing (quite rightly about "so" being used at the start of sentences) about use of english.
Outage, I agree is an appalling one - and one that has slipped through the net as yet.
Outage, I agree is an appalling one - and one that has slipped through the net as yet.
If I go to the supermarket and there isn't any bread is that a "bread outage"?
What about nothing to watch on TV? A TV outage?
I think using "outage" is a grotesque language outage.
What a hideous expression!
Presumably there wasn't any fuel available for a while? Non-native English speakers would understand that...
What about nothing to watch on TV? A TV outage?
I think using "outage" is a grotesque language outage.
What a hideous expression!
Presumably there wasn't any fuel available for a while? Non-native English speakers would understand that...
It's far from new, though, having been in use over there for more than 100 years, so it's not really surprising that it eventually found its way over here. It was certainly in common usage (frequently!) when I was involved in airline IT 40-odd years ago.
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outage is in the Oxford Dictionay
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/outage
and a few other english ones and I suspect a JCB or similar went through a power cable.
and a few other english ones and I suspect a JCB or similar went through a power cable.
Power cut meant that the fuel couldn't be pumped via the hydrant system. There was no lack of fuel as such, just the hydrant system had no power.
Risk of thread drift. Phrases that are common in the UK that get on my threepennys, usually spoken by politicians, print journos or the BBC:
No evidence of wrongdoing
Riding roughshod
Boffins
Rips my knitting.
No evidence of wrongdoing
Riding roughshod
Boffins
Rips my knitting.