<VV> Hockey sticks and terminological exactitudes

[JVHRoberts at aol.com]

Yep, I remember the Horrid Red Plastic Thingy debacle... Oy  gevalt!!

In a message dated 5/31/2008 4:03:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
david.neale3 at ntlworld.com writes:

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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