Re: USAGE: screwdriver

Subject: Re: USAGE: screwdriver
From: Martyn Thirlway <thirlwaym -at- USOFT -dot- NL>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 09:39:00 PDT

Colleen said
>Gas is LPG - liquid petroleum gas. And the consequences of mixing petrol
>and gas up could be dangerous. So a car would run on either gas or petrol
>(not both) :)

Not entirely true - my car runs on both gas and petrol, but not at the same
time :-)

And anyway, to continue the dangers of translation, why do Americans drive
on a parkway and park on a driveway?

Martyn Thirlway
thirlwaym -at- usoft -dot- nl

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