Re: What is the language "British"?

[Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au>]

David Boles:
>>> In construction the machine that runs up and down the side of the
>>> building for hosting materials is called a  -  material lift.
>>>
>>> If is can carry people and materials it is called a  -  man lift.

Sounds like some sort of intimate medical aid.  ;-\


Anne Wilson:
> Then, of course, in a warehouse we have a fork-lift truck

Damn, them forks must be big, or there must be a lot of them, to require
a truck!  ;-)

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