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> or crescent spanners as they are known here

I presume you're a Kiwi?

Over in Australia they call them shifters. One of the many tiny culture shocks I had when I moved across the ditch was when I asked someone to hand my crescent and they passed my Crescent brand pliers instead.

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It’s funny how these things are different throughout the Commonwealth. In Canada, if you asked someone for a Crescent Wrench they’d give you the adjustable wrench just fine, but if you asked them for a spanner of any kind they’d look at you like you had antennae sticking out of your head.

So much so that, while typing this, iOS autocorrect tried to change “spanner” into “scanner” for me.

Ha ha, correct, tool names as PII.

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