--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone else apart from Adrian actually think that using two synonymous words to mean two different widths of boat is a good idea? > [Major snip]
> Martin > I don't see the point in differentiating between "wide" and "broad" or whatever. In most, if not all, contexts I think that it is perfectly clear what width of boat people are referring to. I always hear of "widebeam narrowboat" as in the wider than 7ft narrowboat style boats very rarely have I heard the term "broadbeam narrowboat". Ben
