whats the difference between fluffing and fluffer?

i feel like it's kind of a regional thing. people out west tend to say "footer" occasionally, but in formal instances (i.e. in print) it always says "footing." they also say "footer" down south.

i've never heard anyone say footer in the midwest.

footing i believe is the "correct" term. i have a feeling "footer" came along as a complement to a header.

years ago i recall an architect I worked for was doing some work up in Northern Maine and he was having a conversation with a local french canadian and they were talking about the structures they build to house potatoes for storage. The architect ask him how they built them and he used the term Punch-em alot. It took the architect a while to figure it out what what it amounted to was a pole-building. The punch-em where the bottom of the post was set below the frost line. So I guess you must punch-em in the ground.

A footer the text at the bottom of your high school English paper. A footing is a structural foundation component.

"footer" makes me cringe.

so does "pilings" instead of "piles"

It's proper, but I can't stand the word "lineal" instead of linear. Same cringing as Just Why experiences.

I always get concerned when a contractor is talking about beams and saying columns.

Then you know you really have problems, snook...

It's a sure bet that the word, spelling, or pronunciation you heard *first* is going to be the default version, for you.

Here's to more money for early education !

columns go this way: |
beams go this way: --

I feel like printing that out in 300 point type and pinning it in every first and second year studio around here. it's a perennial mistake that makes me cringe to think of it. The default seems to be referring to every structural member (studs, joists, rafters, etc.) as "beams".