Talk:Plumbob

Plumb vs. Plum
Question: Why does everyone call it the plumbob when it is a Plumb-Bob. (notice spelling!) --75.118.1.96 16:09, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Possible answer: Because people are lazy and the hyphen is somewhat out of the way for a touch-typist, being on the number row. As such, plumb-bob morphs into plumbbob, which looks wrong and so is further morphed into plumbob. Another possible answer: When you see plumb-bob, you hear "plum bob" and so think of it as plumbob. People don't realize that a plumb-bob is actually a weight on a string, which may or may not look like the shape we've all come to know. Plumb in this case comes from the latin for lead, as plumb-bobs were simply lead weights. Also in some games (I know Sims 2 life stories does) if you use the move objects cheat, its name is "Plum Bob" in sell mode.
 * Um, it's a hexagonal bipyramid; so if you can come up a term for that, bingo and you've got yourself a name.

Yellow PlumbBob
Question: In World Adventures I was playing my sim and she got the indefinite adventurous moodlet. Her plumb-bob was not yellow and she had all good moodlets. Does this prove there is no other use for the yellow plumb-bob color? --- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.233.245.41 (talk • contribs) - Sign your comments with ~

TS1 PlumbBob
The PlumbBob from TS1 looks like decagonal bipyramid. Is it worth mentioning in the geometric information section? I've never looked the PlumbBob in details before though, especially in TS1.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  12:18, May 21, 2013 (UTC)

Spelling and article name
I think we should rename this page to "Plumbob" or "Plumbbob." I've seen more sources, including official sites, omit the second 'b' and I have almost never seen the second 'b' capitalized when it's included at all. As well, most sources don't treat this word as a proper noun, so it's usually not capitalized when used in a sentence. --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 19:11, July 28, 2014 (UTC)