Does the word "TRAVERSE"

yes.

TRA verse

and

tru VERSE.

Agree, definitely.

Don

Scope:
Provide not only a cross-section of the stream channel, but a transect of the entire floodplain...

DDSM:beer:

(Traverse and traverse the whole thing)

Environmental Scientists use "transect." For example they run a line through a wooded area and every so often make measurements of whatever they are measuring (for example tree canopy) then they extrapolate out to the whole wooded area or something like that.

TRA verse is what I do at work.

tru VERSE is what I do on skis crossing the face of the mountain roughly on the countour but going slightly downhill.

Does the word "TOPPO" come to mind

How many times have potential clients called the survey request a "Toppo". Soft "O", hard "PP". Whatever a toppo is? Typically architects and yuppie types.

As opposed to a "topo", which is surveyor slang for topographic and what we do.

Does the word "TOPPO" come to mind

I've heard many Canadians use the word Toppo.

Must be a regional dialect, eh?

Does the word "TOPPO" come to mind

Pronounced "Tah-Po"
I used to get the gears all the time working in Ariona..:-)

Does the word "TOPPO" come to mind

I got an e-mail the other day to get a stock pile "toe poled" for a quantity....

Does the word "TOPPO" come to mind

> How many times have potential clients called the survey request a "Toppo". Soft "O", hard "PP". Whatever a toppo is? Typically architects and yuppie types.
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> As opposed to a "topo", which is surveyor slang for topographic and what we do.

I have always learned and used 'toe-poe', and in later times I have heard (and occasionally used) "toe-pog" (pog as in log). toppo (tah-poe) does go against my grain a little bit. (Do those guys use the the soft "o" when they say the full name? like top-ography I wonder?

Does the word "TOPPO" come to mind

Toppo (Japanese: ???) also known as "reverse pocky" , is a chocolate and bread-based snack made by Lotte. Normally it consists of a hollowed bread stick with a filling of chocolate. Flavors include chocolate, "black" (chocolate flavored breadstick with a vanilla filling), "blue" (regular breadstick with a vanilla filling), green tea, strawberry, coffee mousse and many other seasonal flavors.

Does the word "TOPPO" come to mind

I was taught and heard topo (toe-poe) for the first 18 years I've been surveying until I arrived in WA and then the common usage was topog (although I never heard photog used) 🙂

Does the word "TOPPO" come to mind

When I first started up in Dutchess County NY, a subdivision we were staking out had a street called "Top O' Hill Road".

Of course, we pronounced it "topo".