In message <v01540b01b12cd953b019@[129.128.230.48]>, John McEwen
<mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes
>Hi Chris:
>
>In North America a saloon is a place to drink booze. A sedan is a four
>door car. The term has been corrupted over the past 30 years to mean all
>cars with two or four doors but not cars with "hardtop" or coupe styling.
>It's just another one of those annoying cross-Atlantic language problems.
>We don't call them wings we call them fenders - etc.etc.
Thanks for clearing that up. I'll be sure not to tell you the story
about when I forgot to close the bonnet on my car, and mangled the
bulkhead, needing spanners to take the bonnet off!:-)
Cheers,
Chris Davies
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