Original Message: ----------------- From: Sheldon Brown CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:42:40 -0500 To: kohl57@starpower.net, doug@kingsweir.plus.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: RE: [CR]Mudguards to us .Fenders to you!
"Most automobile parts as well as many bicycle parts have different names in U.S. vs British usage, since these devices were introduced
after the Revolutionary War.
It doesn't mean that one is wrong and the other is right, might as well complain that the French have different names too!"
Well now, Sheldon.. we don't call a derailleur that "widget that chang es gears" do we? Or say that "bunch 'o bike guys" instead of a peloton? T our DES France is a bad as it gets but only if you watch OLN.
Peter Kohler Washington DC USA
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