The podium/lectern one is the one that bothers me more than most because enough companies that sell these products often mislabel them as the opposite one.
West/east-coasting is another bad one. I've known people who have done one or the other for over a decade who can't agree on which is which. Often leads to a great argument after a long night when someone starts shouting at the guy who's striking the soft goods who thinks he's doing exactly what he was told to.
People like calling a pipe a "bar," but one of my old bosses used to remind anyone caught saying that that a bar is something you sit at.
And [user]WooferHound[/user], I believe the term you were looking for was batten.
Other great ones are DMX/XLR (for that matter, that people think that DMX cables actually exist), twist-lock/Speakon/Neutrik connectors, CAT5/CAT5E/CAT6, winch/wench, scissor/boom/vertical-mast/Genie lift, and one that causes lots of confusion when building a new facility, Telex/Clear Com system.
West/east-coasting is another bad one. I've known people who have done one or the other for over a decade who can't agree on which is which. Often leads to a great argument after a long night when someone starts shouting at the guy who's striking the soft goods who thinks he's doing exactly what he was told to.
People like calling a pipe a "bar," but one of my old bosses used to remind anyone caught saying that that a bar is something you sit at.
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And [user]WooferHound[/user], I believe the term you were looking for was batten.
Other great ones are DMX/XLR (for that matter, that people think that DMX cables actually exist), twist-lock/Speakon/Neutrik connectors, CAT5/CAT5E/CAT6, winch/wench, scissor/boom/vertical-mast/Genie lift, and one that causes lots of confusion when building a new facility, Telex/Clear Com system.