Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fun-with-English question: Is a 'sandtrap' the normal US word
> for what we over here call a 'bunker'? Is 'bunker' also used?
Both are listed ("sand trap" is spelled with a space) in
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary and in The American
Heritage Dictionary (3rd ed.). There's no indication of a
preference for either, and no indication that "bunker" is in
any way un-American.
My only UK dictionary is the compact OED. It lists "bunker"
but not "sand trap", and it says that "bunker" is Scottish.
But then that part of the dictionary was written in the 1880s.
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Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Washington, DC
