In article <39.10c33768.27c045d8@aol.com>, DANMAS@aol.com writes
> In a message dated 2/17/2001 3:40:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> OC@46thFoot.com writes:
>
>> Off-
>> side=left-hand-side as it comes towards you; Near-side=the other
>> one...)
>
> Michael,
>
> As it was explained to me by an Englishman, "Off-side" is the side
> of the car
> farthest from the curb when the car is parked.
Quite right - although we would call it "the kerb". :-)
> This would always be
> the
> drivers side, which would be the "left hand side of the car as it
> comes
> towards you" if you live in a country where they drive on the "left
> side" of
> the road, but in America, it would be the right side.
(Unless you were driving a left-hand-drive car in the UK, or a right-
hand-drive car in the States...)
Hence my need to explain my terms. I started off with the definition
"driver's side" before realising that that would be equally misleading!
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
to be published by Greenhill Books in March, 2001.
See http://www.hargreave-mawson.demon.co.uk/Books.html for details.
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