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Stingray:


--- Quote from: screaming on May 12, 2005, 06:40:04 pm ---Am I the only one on the planet who doesn't know what a "spanner" is without looking it up?

-sab

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It's what those wacky Brits call a wrench, for the benefit of those who don't want to bother looking it up.

Buy a British car sometime. The restoration manuals require a lot of translation until you learn the terminology. A wrench is a spanner, the hood is a bonnet, the convertable top is a hood, the fender is a wing, the trunk is a boot...

-S

DrewKaree:

Lemme tell ya, those Brits are almost as bad as the French!  It seems like those French have a different word for EVERYTHING!

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