Secateurs

[HAL9000]

Do people actually call them "grass scissors"?!

Awful.

What do you call secateurs?

 

[irishScott]

Pruning shears?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruning_shears

 

[mcurphy]

OK already, we get it, Neckbeard. Your British English and our American English have different terms and pronunciations for the same items. How many stupid threads do you need to start about the differences between Britain and America?

 

[HAL9000]

Pruning shears?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruning_shears

That works. :thumbsup:

 

[HAL9000]

OK already, we get it, Neckbeard. Your British English and our American English have different terms and pronunciations for the same items. How many stupid threads do you need to start about the differences between Britain and America?

"Grass Scissors" isn't an American thing... Mmmkay?

 

[Mike Gayner]

Grass scissors and secateurs are different things, idiot.

 

[HAL9000]

Grass scissors and secateurs are different things, idiot.

Good, idiot.

Still a stupid name, idiot.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Grass scissors are scissors used to cut grass. Pretty good name if you ask me.

 

[Newbian]

Never heard of grass scissors here as we call it a lawn mower.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Also...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_shears

 

[HamburgerBoy]

'Secateur' is a pretty badass sounding word tbh. I think I'll start using it.

 

[MarkXIX]

Well bloody hell?! Football? What do you right lovin' chaps call football then? Crack on wankas!

We get it. We get it.

Oh, and this:

http://www.translatebritish.com/

Stop shitting on my forums with your inane ramblings about differences in our variants of the English language.

 

[WelshBloke]

Do people actually call them "grass scissors"?!

Awful.

What do you call secateurs?

Secateurs =/= shears

but yeah grass scissors is a stupid name.

What about a rake? Is that a lawn comb?

 

[BoomerD]

Oh look...YANTABDIELU

(Yet Another Neckbeard Thread About Differences in English Language Usage)

It's funny that he's using a French word with a latin origin to argue what word is more appropriate in English...

Secateurs =/= shears

but yeah grass scissors is a stupid name.

What about a rake? Is that a lawn comb?

The various dictionaries disagree with you.

Secateur = Shears. (pruning shears, not sheep shears)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secateur

Definition of SECATEUR

chiefly British
: pruning shears —usually used in plural
Origin of SECATEUR

French sécateur, from Latin secare to cut
First Known Use: 1881

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/secateurs

secateurs [sek-uh-ter, -tur]  
sec·a·teurs   [sek-uh-ter, -tur] Show IPA
noun ( used with a singular or plural verb ) Chiefly British .
scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
Origin:
1880–85; < French < Latin sec ( &#257;re ) to cut ( see secant) + French -ateurs (plural) < Latin -&#257;tor -ator

World English Dictionary
secateurs (&#712;s&#603;k&#601;t&#601;z, &#716;s&#603;k&#601;&#712;t&#604;&#720;z)

— pl n
chiefly ( Brit ) a small pair of shears for pruning, having a pair of pivoted handles, sprung so that they are normally open, and usually a single cutting blade that closes against a flat surface

[C19: plural of French sécateur, from Latin sec&#257;re to cut]

 

[WelshBloke]

Oh look...YANTABDIELU

(Yet Another Neckbeard Thread About Differences in English Language Usage)

It's funny that he's using a French word with a latin origin to argue what word is more appropriate in English...



The various dictionaries disagree with you.

Secateur = Shears. (pruning shears, not sheep shears)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secateur



http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/secateurs

I was pointing out to Hal that this

is different to this

As he was equating the two in his OP.

In the UK where both Hal and I are from the former is a set of garden shears the second is a set of secateurs.

They are both types of shears as are nail scissors but I thought the context of the OP would have made a further explanation unnecessary. I was obviously wrong.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Sounds like a race in Skyrim. I use to be an adventurer like the Secateurs, then I took an arrow in the knee..

 

[BoomerD]

I was pointing out to Hal that this

is different to this

As he was equating the two in his OP.

In the UK where both Hal and I are from the former is a set of garden shears the second is a set of secateurs.

Here in the USA, the first would be considered hedge clippers (or hedge shears) and the second would be pruning shears.

http://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Clippers.../dp/B002GWCG8Y

http://www.amazon.com/Fiskars-9124-P.../dp/B000F97DWO

 

[WelshBloke]

Either way no one calls the long pointy ones secateurs, that's what I was pointing out to Hal.

And I still think grass scissors is a dumb name.

 

[Squisher]

'Secateur' is a pretty badass sounding word tbh. I think I'll start using it.

Kinda reminded me of saboteur.

"The saboteur plunged the secateur into neck of his victim so as to give succor to his cause."