<VV> Hockey sticks and terminological exactitudes

[Jim Houston]

David:  Don't forget the wings!! (Fenders to us Yanks)..  The biggest 
problem I had when I was stationed in England was "nearside" and 
"offside"...  never did really figure those out! 

Jim Houston

David B. Neale 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.
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> 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!
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> David
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