Do you “cut” off the lights or do you “turn” off the lights, do you call it a hose pipe or a hose or a garden
hose?When I moved to Tn everybody was always cutting things off or on I had never heard of such a thing and had no idea what a hose pipe was!!!
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I say cut off the lights and I call it a hose or water hose.
Get used to it and quit being intolerant.
i say garden hose and cutting the lights off! because your cutting off the circut to the ligh when you flipp the switch
When in Rome…………………………….
a hose but yes I cut it off when done
In New York we close the lights. pretty weird. sometimes we shut them. we call a hose a hose.
i flip the switch to turn off the lights, to me a hose is like a garden hose and a pipe is metal.
I prefer to have the lights on when I lay pipe
cut off the lights, hose
I live near Chicago and I turn off the lights and use a garden hose.
Many of my coworkers cut off this and that and I’m afraid to stand near them for fear of a “bobbit cut”.
Actually the same situation here. I am from Georgia, and moved to North East Tennessee.
I turn off lights and use a water hose.
Well… It is bit different with me I “gasim” lights and call it “crevo” or “guma”.
But when lerning English I was told to turn off the lights and… well water hose is water hose.
I might say “cut the lights” but not cut off the lights, I normally say turn off the lights, however. I also wouldn’t have known what a hose pipe was. We say “hose” but know this refers to a garden hose, generally speaking.
I’m Canadian and I remember my friend dated an American and we drove down to visit him and had some trouble with words, either we said something and they didn’t get it, or they said something and we didn’t get it. And they only lived 2 hours away! We had an argument about transport trucks being called semis…