BARRY HOLLAND <[email protected]> wrote: >--- I have just been offered a 13k bottle of propane at Fenny Compton Marine >for £23. Is this a record? > >Steve >Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange > >No Steve, >It's a 13k cylinder of propane! Sorry, couldn't resist it! :-)) >In Fire Brigade training school @ Southwark, anyone calling a cylinder a >'bottle' had to run up the training tower with the cylinder on their shoulder >& shout out ''This is a cylinder, not a bottle!'' at the top of their voice on >each of the thirteen floors-both up & down! >Barry
Hmm. Seems to me that the object in question is both a cylinder and a bottle. OED says: "bottle n, ... metal cylinder for liquefied gas ..." Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
