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We need to decide how to spell cills or sills!!

Its Sill. Search the Porsche parts catalogue and its down as Sill. Search for Cill and you'l find nothing.
 
FWIW I agree, but it nearly started WW3 the first time this came up

Apparently architects can't spell but most either think they are superior beings to us mere humans or are somewhat insecure, or maybe both... [8|]
 
Yes and no; it depends where you look.

From Dictionary.com

Sill
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""noun 1.a horizontal timber, block, or the like serving as a foundation of a wall, house, etc. 2.the horizontal piece or member beneath a window, door, or other opening. 3.Geology. a tabular body of intrusive igneous rock, ordinarily between beds of sedimentary rocks or layers of volcanic ejecta. [FONT=verdana,geneva"]
[Origin: bef. 900; ME sille, OE syl, sylle; c. LG süll, ON syll; akin to G Schwelle sill
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CillCill, n. See Sill., n. a foundation. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


From Cambridge Dictionaries on line:

sill Show phonetics
noun [C]
a flat piece of wood, stone, etc. which forms the base of a window or door


cill was not found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Anyone got a copy of the OED or a login to their website as it's probably definitive?
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well it was confusing for me when searching for information on sills (cills) did not realize there were 2 spellings, its not only this forum that uses both words to describe the same items.

very confusing to a newbie.
 
I can't believe there is another thread on this again. It's is quite funny gravitating between UK and US sites. Some very typically different subject matter prevails. Still, it's better than our virtually non existent Porsche scene down here.[:(]
 
Yawn! Does it really matter?

Personally, I will continue to annotate joinery details with "cills" and don't really care how others describe the bit at the bottom of their doors. Sills or Cills we know what you mean.

FWIW if you consider the building industry deals with "Cills" day in day out where as in other walks of life you may only need to write "Sill" once in a blue moon I think "Cill" gets it purely through frequency of use - but so what?
 
Well on the basis that far more cars are built every day than houses then surely it should be Sills based upon frequency of use?

I get far more irate when people refer to the inflatable black rubber things at each corner of the car as 'tires'.
 
Cills just looks wrong to me and it "grates" on my eye. I imagine body shops use the term day in day out just like building peeps do as well... My pet hate is "breaks" used to describe the things that slow you down however.

Ultimately it isn't a big deal though.
 
I don't think it really matters as long as we all know which part is being referred to. Sill/Cill only becomes a problem when using the search facility.

But it's a vote for sill from me! [;)]
 
ORIGINAL: Fen

FWIW I agree, but it nearly started WW3 the first time this came up

Apparently architects can't spell but most either think they are superior beings to us mere humans or are somewhat insecure, or maybe both... [8|]
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Oy! I'm an Architect and we are superior beings ...[;)][:D]
I use cills for a house and sills for cars
 
ORIGINAL: John Sims

Yawn! Does it really matter?

Personally, I will continue to annotate joinery details with "cills" and don't really care how others describe the bit at the bottom of their doors. Sills or Cills we know what you mean.

FWIW if you consider the building industry deals with "Cills" day in day out where as in other walks of life you may only need to write "Sill" once in a blue moon I think "Cill" gets it purely through frequency of use - but so what?
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I sell joinery into the timber and building trade and we sell sills day in day out !
So it's sills by frequency of use then ?
 
ORIGINAL: peanut

ORIGINAL: Fen

FWIW I agree, but it nearly started WW3 the first time this came up

Apparently architects can't spell but most either think they are superior beings to us mere humans or are somewhat insecure, or maybe both... [8|]
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Oy! I'm an Architect and we are superior beings ...[;)][:D]
I use cills for a house and sills for cars
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I deal with Architects every other day and it's amazing just how many do carry on as if they are Godlike yet we have to deal with their mistakes and hissy fits quite often. They must be the same the world over.[:D]
 
ORIGINAL: Fen

Cills just looks wrong to me and it "grates" on my eye. I imagine body shops use the term day in day out just like building peeps do as well... My pet hate is "breaks" used to describe the things that slow you down however......
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Welcome back Fen. Do you mean as in tea "breaks" which frequently slow me down? Bring me to a dead stop they do.[:D]
 
I deal with Architects every other day and it's amazing just how many do carry on as if they are Godlike yet we have to deal with their mistakes and hissy fits quite often. They must be the same the world over.[:D]

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Nah the truth is all builders are the same the world over. They think they know better than someone who has trained for 7 years on every aspect of building construction and legislation so they just go ahead and put in lintols upside down and cut off DPM's short because they don't know what to do with them and they don't put cavity trays correctly because they don't read the instructions and they cut through roof truss ties and put lintols on 3" bearings . Then the Architect has to come back years later to sort out all the problems created.
I used to be a builder long before I became an Architect so I can see both sides of the argument [;)]
 
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