Power Outage

Posted by Henry on August 16, 2003

In Reply to: Power Outage posted by ESC on August 16, 2003

: : 'Outage, in the sense of 'Power Outage' is unknown in Britain - 'Power failure' is the current term. How many other countries use 'outage', I wonder?
: : However, I'm glad that the electricity is getting back to normal.

: U.S. -- we use outage and failure. Or, more likely, "The power is off." Or, "The electricity is off."

UK also uses power cuts

• Power Outage ESC 17/August/03
  • Power Outage Barney 17/August/03