-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 05:47, Chris Lale wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> >> Given the choice of "Americans" or "Brits" answer these questions. >> > > "Torch" is the shortened form of "electric torch" (provides continuous > light, not flashes).
Flashlights produce beams of light, not the general radiance of a "flame" torch. Since "flame" torches radiate light in all directions, the American phrase for that is (battery powered) *lantern*. > "Petrol" is the shortened form of "petroleum spirit". There are *lots* of petroleum spirits, not just the ones that go in gasoline. > BTW, the oil filler is under the "bonnet". You put the second stomach of ruminating animals on your automobiles? Geez, you people *are* strange!!! > It seems that language was forking long before software projects. Yup. You all went wrong, and we stayed correct. (How's that for blatant, mindless jingoism???) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF4vOPS9HxQb37XmcRAmuwAKC8vGY6rDb5fGeyzAkzOXQoJkxnmgCfay1o uGgiXMC/1rvbl/u36TJ2ZEk= =xNck -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
