On 03/21/2018 01:04 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 01:36:50 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/20/2018 01:04 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:30:06 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/20/2018 08:53 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
The terms canoe and kayak are pretty much interchangeable.
Apparently,
according to Wikipedia, every single one I've seen is technically a
kayak, yet everyone who uses them, even professionally, is a
canoeist in
a canoe. this for example is white water canoeing:
https://www.manchester-canoes-and-ka...ter-kayaks.htm
-
everyone calls those canoes.

Right. That's why the link is white-water-canoes.htm. Perhaps you meant

https://www.manchester-canoes-and-ka...ght-canoes.htm




And you're one to talk, you lot call large cars trucks. A truck
weighs
50 tonnes and carries huge amounts of cargo. It's not a thing you put
your kids in the back and a bit of shopping.

Right.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/3053...old-for-30000/



You're too easy today.

Chevrolet is an AMERICAN company.


The Sun isn't an American rag...

So? The naming of the vehicle is done by the manufacturer. If my
neighbour had one and I wanted to borrow it, I wouldn't call it a
truck. Truck in the UK is a synonym for lorry. The huge 50 tonne
things with several axles, not something you drive on a standard car
license.


That's why the are officially called light trucks. It does wonders when
you're cooking the books for the EPA fleet mileage figures.