<VV> Hockey sticks and terminological exactitudes

[Mike Jacobi]

Don't forget the serviettes......what we call napkins.   Aqnd you'd better
pick up some crisps while you're about it.

Mike in Michigan...used to drive a Corvair Monza in France.


On 5/31/08 4:03 PM, "David B. Neale" <david.neale3 at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Use of 'alternative' names for motor-car components is widespread and as
> old as the hills.  Whilst engineers from Stuttgart to wherever may well
> refer to a particular component as a this, or, for that matter, a that,
> the practice of referring to components by other names is nothing new.
> 
> Components are blessed with other names according to their geographical
> location, too.  What you call rocker panels, or covers, we in England
> call sills.  Our rocker covers are your valve covers.  Your oil-pan is
> our sump. Your convertible top is our hood, and your hood is our bonnet.
> The list, in fact, goes on and on.  In France, a gearbox, (your
> transmission), is a boite de vitesses ... a box of speeds, literally.
> Are they wrong?  Are we wrong?
> 
> Provided that my hockey sticks don't drop off my Corvair whilst motoring
> along a local 'B' road between the Shires to purchase some aubergines
> for our Lancashire hot-pot, (which aubergines I will place in the boot,
> although you'd use the trunk), then I don't give a pig's burp what they
> are called.  I suspect most other people don't, either!!
> 
> Yoiks!  Tally-Ho!
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
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