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Column Pad

08/24/2019 12:41 PM

Dear sirs,

Column is an important structure in building construction. What is a column pad?

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08/24/2019 12:47 PM

It's that thing under the column that supports it....

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08/24/2019 6:52 PM

If you go on a construction site in Canada (not sure about the US), refer to a column as a col-yoom. If you say colum, the construction guys will pretend they don't know what you are talking about.

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08/25/2019 12:07 AM

There are a few Yanks who mispronounce it, too, but not many.

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08/26/2019 11:24 AM

What's that light-weight metal they make beer cans out of?

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08/26/2019 12:04 PM

The book "On High Steel" (1974) was written by Mike Cherry, a New England school teacher who after his divorce got a job on a steel -working construction crew in an attempt to forget his past. Highly recommended. I recall him writing that everyone on the crew called a column a "col-yoom", and if you wanted to be one of the guys, that is how you pronounced it too. I have also noticed that a lot of bricklayers call a chimney, a "chimlee".

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