Standard Lamp

[Barman]

Imagine how rare non-standard lamps must be...? 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Why is it called a standard lamp? 


Why not a floor standing lamp? After all one has a table lamp or a desk lamp.


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My Mother has one will see what I can do BW has shelve type things on it and everything, well, not everything obviously.

[TG]

Wiki knows...............feck all.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/standard_lamp

[Snoopy]

Yes yes ~ we know WHAT it is what we want to know is WHY?

[Just One More]

Yes yes ~ we know WHAT it is what we want to know is WHY?

Mum always use to call lamp posts "lamp standards". Anyhoo, one dictionary definition of standard is "something that stands or is placed upright" 

[Bar Wench]

In the same way that rose standards are those tree things.

[Pastis]

And the Evening Standard used to be a tree thing...

[Nick]

 

[Snoopy]

Yes yes ~ we know WHAT it is what we want to know is WHY?

Mum always use to call lamp posts "lamp standards". Anyhoo, one dictionary definition of standard is "something that stands or is placed upright" 

So did my mum ~ come to that so do I but table lamps also stand upright. Sory but there has to be a better reason

Oh and Wenchy A Standard Rose is something quite different ~ for a start you can't read by the light of a standard rose although I will grant that a ceiling rose usually has a lamp hanging from it.

[Barman]

And the Evening Standard used to be a tree thing...