[bobplum]

IS IT C OR S when writing sills(cills)

[Klean07]

Its Sills I think! Cills used to compare Blind Date on ITV!

[oldman]

win-dow-sill.....repeat s-l-o-w-l-y.

[G Griffin]

Its Sills I think! Cills used to compare Blind Date on ITV!

Is it compare or compère. I'll go compère.....go compère....

[sunshine windows]

Either is ok

[Clever Forum Name]

SILL BRUSH 

[Simon Mess]

According to both Oxford and Cambridge online dictionaries, it is sill.

[Ian Lancaster]

I've always known it to be 'sills', but any canal enthusiast will tell you that the concrete base of a lock gate is a 'cill' - same type of thing, different spelling.

[Geoff]

I have a cilver bracelet.

[bobplum]

many years ago when working with a window company it was spelt................CILL
Maybe it was an american way
A bit like the Plumb Center!!!!

[rosskesava]

I reckon this whole thread is cilly.

[PoleKing]

As a joiner and lecturer (in joinery) I can say it is Cill.
The Sill bit is American, came in about 60 years ago.
But we (for the most part) are in England, so it's: Cill.

[Geoff]

Don't be so cilly.

[James Bulton]

As joiner and lecturer:
You have never taught English, it is sill and sill is not American at all. In many other countries also making the  use of English it would be called a window ledge. My God call yourself English and cannot even speak or spell your own language. The well spoken American will have a high command of the English language contrary to what we might believe here. 

[PoleKing]

As joiner and lecturer:
You have never taught English, it is sill and sill is not American at all. In many other countries also making the  use of English it would be called a window ledge. My God call yourself English and cannot even speak or spell your own language. The well spoken American will have a high command of the English language contrary to what we might believe here.  

The ledge is on the inside

[AuRavelling79]

As joiner and lecturer:
You have never taught English, it is sill and sill is not American at all. In many other countries also making the  use of English it would be called a window ledge. My God call yourself English and cannot even speak or spell your own language. The well spoken American will have a high command of the English language contrary to what we might believe here. 

Foolish comment, Smithie; and where is the punctuation point after "My God"? Also, after "lecturer" it should be a semi-colon. The whole post should be revised for grammar too.


British English - can be cill or sill.
American English - sill.

I believe that the earliest use of the word predates the Norman conquest with "sylle" - this became "sill" but in the 1800's "cill" began to appear as an alternative - now both are acceptable but by far the most used, especially since Worldwide (i.e. non-British) English has gained in popularity is sill.


Bit like Waggon or Wagon - both acceptable.

[PoleKing]

As joiner and lecturer:
You have never taught English, it is sill and sill is not American at all. In many other countries also making the  use of English it would be called a window ledge. My God call yourself English and cannot even speak or spell your own language. The well spoken American will have a high command of the English language contrary to what we might believe here. 

Foolish comment, Smithie; and where is the punctuation point after "My God"? Also, after "lecturer" it should be a semi-colon. The whole post should be revised for grammar too.


British English - can be cill or sill.
American English - sill.

I believe that the earliest use of the word predates the Norman conquest with "sylle" - this became "sill" but in the 1800's "cill" began to appear as an alternative - now both are acceptable but by far the most used, especially since Worldwide (i.e. non-British) English has gained in popularity is sill.


Bit like Waggon or Wagon - both acceptable.

Is 'forgot my shammy' really Smithie?

[8weekly]

As joiner and lecturer:
You have never taught English, it is sill and sill is not American at all. In many other countries also making the  use of English it would be called a window ledge. My God call yourself English and cannot even speak or spell your own language. The well spoken American will have a high command of the English language contrary to what we might believe here. 

Foolish comment, Smithie; and where is the punctuation point after "My God"? Also, after "lecturer" it should be a semi-colon. The whole post should be revised for grammar too.


British English - can be cill or sill.
American English - sill.

I believe that the earliest use of the word predates the Norman conquest with "sylle" - this became "sill" but in the 1800's "cill" began to appear as an alternative - now both are acceptable but by far the most used, especially since Worldwide (i.e. non-British) English has gained in popularity is sill.


Bit like Waggon or Wagon - both acceptable.

Not to mention that it is "chamois". Not shammy.

[PoleKing]

As joiner and lecturer:
You have never taught English, it is sill and sill is not American at all. In many other countries also making the  use of English it would be called a window ledge. My God call yourself English and cannot even speak or spell your own language. The well spoken American will have a high command of the English language contrary to what we might believe here. 

Foolish comment, Smithie; and where is the punctuation point after "My God"? Also, after "lecturer" it should be a semi-colon. The whole post should be revised for grammar too.


British English - can be cill or sill.
American English - sill.

I believe that the earliest use of the word predates the Norman conquest with "sylle" - this became "sill" but in the 1800's "cill" began to appear as an alternative - now both are acceptable but by far the most used, especially since Worldwide (i.e. non-British) English has gained in popularity is sill.


Bit like Waggon or Wagon - both acceptable.

Not to mention that it is "chamois". Not shammy.

Lol. Good spot fella!

[Don Kee]

As joiner and lecturer:
You have never taught English, it is sill and sill is not American at all. In many other countries also making the  use of English it would be called a window ledge. My God call yourself English and cannot even speak or spell your own language. The well spoken American will have a high command of the English language contrary to what we might believe here.  

Just 'using English' would have sufficed instead of the overly elaborate language...