[Gllug] OT: Mains electricity colour coding.

[Steve Parker]

On 24/10/10 21:28, John G Walker wrote:
>> My memory is quite clear that red was
>> live and black was neutral.
>>      
> Correct. And brown was, naturally, the colour of the earth.
> I was taught that "Red goes to the right". I've never learnt a rule
> for the new colours,
>    
I was taught that "the lively brown cow jumps over a green-and-yellow 
earth under a neutral blue sky". How I ever came to remember such a 
convoluted mnemonic I have no idea - and how many lively, jumping cows 
have you ever seen?!
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