RE: Help ID / UK to US English

["Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>]

> In a message dated 1/25/05 3:13:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> lmtr4a@ctlnet.com writes:
>
> << while the engine (a motor
>  is something that runs on electricity) >>
>
ZinkZ10C@aol.com replied :
>
> I'll use either one, some have consistant usage though.

I believe the term "motor" includes both electric motors and internal (and
external) combustion engines.

However, I wouldn't call an electric motor an engine.  Thus an EV1 is a motor
vehicle, but it has no engine.

Randall