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Wet Willy

TAS

2317 posts

Wet Willy

TAS, 2317 posts

9 Aug 2008 1:29am

How do you pronounce "X-Ply"?

Is it pronounced "Ex-Ply" or "Cross-Ply"?

I've been driving myself crazy over this one for ages. I assume it's the former, but I'd hate to think people were smirking at me behind my back...

swoosh

QLD

1929 posts

swoosh

QLD, 1929 posts

9 Aug 2008 1:38am

I say "Ex-Ply"

wormy

QLD

679 posts

wormy

QLD, 679 posts

9 Aug 2008 6:45am

I'd rather say cross.
Ex sounds like something I used to stick my thing into but wish I didn't.

Richiefish

QLD

5612 posts

Richiefish

QLD, 5612 posts

9 Aug 2008 8:42am

for some answers moist William, you must look within....ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

OceanBlue64

VIC

980 posts

OceanBlue64

VIC, 980 posts

9 Aug 2008 8:42am

I always thought that x-ply was just the abbreviated version of cross-ply and as such I always say cross-ply.
Could be wrong though as I have been known to make the occasional stuff up

Jethrow

NSW

1282 posts

Jethrow

NSW, 1282 posts

9 Aug 2008 10:14am

I've always called it Ex-ply but I guess one man's ex is another man's cross...

Jethrow

poor relative

9106 posts

poor relative

WA, 9106 posts

9 Aug 2008 10:01am

Easy its Jarrah.

555

892 posts

555

892 posts

9 Aug 2008 4:49pm

poor relative said...

Easy its Jarrah.

Jarrah would be pretty heavy.. and the splinters are a mongrel

Bamboo would probably be a better option.

decrepit

12885 posts

decrepit

WA, 12885 posts

9 Aug 2008 8:26pm

Isn't X-ply the stuff where the reinforcing fibers cross over each other in a X pattern???

Wet Willy

TAS

2317 posts

Wet Willy

TAS, 2317 posts

10 Aug 2008 4:46am

Great. Could someone who knows reply, please???

Jethrow

NSW

1282 posts

Jethrow

NSW, 1282 posts

10 Aug 2008 10:56am

Dimension Polyant, who make a lot of this cloth, call it X (ex) ply not cross.

Jethrow

OceanBlue64

VIC

980 posts

OceanBlue64

VIC, 980 posts

10 Aug 2008 1:50pm

I also think it depends on the context. The cloth itself may be called x-ply where the technique/application is called cross ply.

Hippy Boy

QLD

2 posts

Hippy Boy

QLD, 2 posts

10 Aug 2008 2:32pm

I've never windsurfed before and there's no surf today so I'd like to try it. Is there anywhere on the Gold Coast where I can hire a windsurfer?

Hippy Boy

Wet Willy

TAS

2317 posts

Wet Willy

TAS, 2317 posts

11 Aug 2008 11:55am

Hippy Boy said...

I've never windsurfed before and there's no surf today so I'd like to try it. Is there anywhere on the Gold Coast where I can hire a windsurfer?

Hippy Boy

It won't be that simple - you have to LEARN first! Go to the QLD forum and ask some of the locals to show you what's what.

Gonewindsurfing247

966 posts

Gonewindsurfing247

WA, 966 posts

11 Aug 2008 10:23am

Super Cross or Super X - Same thing, for mine it is cross ply.

Bondalucci

VIC

1580 posts

Bondalucci

VIC, 1580 posts

11 Aug 2008 12:45pm

The Evolution of the Pronunciation of X-ply.

Apparently, it was originally pronounced ex-ply,
but this name was already being used by another product.

So legally, it couldn't be called ex-ply anymore.

It was now ex- ex-ply.

This was hard to say, and made people cross,

....and hence the term "cross"ply was born (Q.E.D)

Big Al

265 posts

Big Al

WA, 265 posts

11 Aug 2008 11:38am

I thought it was pronounced "Chicken wire"........

AB....

Richiefish

QLD

5612 posts

Richiefish

QLD, 5612 posts

11 Aug 2008 1:42pm

before radials there was the good ol' cross ply tyres .......

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