[email protected] wrote: > [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?
..or "narrowboat" and "narrow boat" :)
