--- >> 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" :)
Just to be clear on this---it's Adrian that started to cite the OE--not me!
Barry
Nb checkitout
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