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Well, it is rather a nice, nasty-sounding word to use without being "officially" crude and vulgar. Somewhat Monty Pythonish IMO.

waiting on pins & needles for the CLPs in N. A., SM: Ocean Springs

Intercourse the penguin!

"Ocean Springs"

Smeg!

-- Cheers Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

"auto" - automobile or autogyro?

Good question, and one that clearly needed to be asked. Ambiguity is the devil's work and should be stamped out with vigor. I was referring, of course, to an autoMOBILE, and not an autoGYRO, as I didn't consider that one would drive about on the parkway in one's autogyro, but rather that one would fly about in the airway with it.

will concede, however, that both could be parked on the driveway. I do hope that clears up any ambiguity.

SM: Ocean Springs

It does indeed, thankyou Britain and North America appear to be seperated by a common language.

This is another example of the American fetish for using a polysyllabic word when a monosyllable would do the job much better. In the good old UK, we would refer to the "car", and there would be no confusion.

Trouble is in US parlance a 'car' is the passenger coach towed behind a locomotive although more and more Americans these days are using it to describe a road vehicle.

(kim)

Not in South London, we don't! Down here we drive about in our "motors" (awight, John?). A "car" is something with flanged wheels that goes backwards and forwards between Croydon and Wimbledon on our fabled Tramlink, carrying "customers", whereas "passengers" are the people what sit in the left-hand seat of our motors. Hope this clears up any confusion.

Cheers, Steve

Indeed. On the Gulf, Mobiile & Ohio railroad a "Motor" is what a diesel locomotives was called. A "Motorcar" was the name for a track speeder, or section car. I don't have a clue what a track speeder is called in GB.

Motorcars:

SM: Ocean Springs

I think Ill go and Naff the wife then. :-)

Or a freight vehicle - boxcar, hopper car, flat car, tank car...

In message , Steve W writes

I fough' tha' in Sarf Lunnun vey was called "mo'ors".

Handy modelling tip: you might find it easier if you dismantle her first.

Cheers, Steve

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Nah! That's a totally naff idea.

Jane Sullivan wrote: > I fough' tha' in Sarf Lunnun vey was called "mo'ors".

The glottal stop is very difficult to produce in written communication!

True, but I must have got it right because you recognised it as such.