Stuart Tallack wrote:
> Don't be too dogmatic. They are called cotter pins in Britain. What
> you describe as wire doodads are always called split pins here. The
> manufacturers call them split cotters but nobody else does. A cotter
> is a Scottish farm labourer living in a tied cottage. Two nations
> divided by a common language again.
I thought that was a cottAr: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
:-)
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John (ducking and running) Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA