[email protected] wrote:
> 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 ..."
Care to look up 'wide' and 'broad' while you've got your dictionary open?
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