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Originally posted by Erik
What is a lorry? English slang?
Originally posted by Hanada Tattsu
Yes, it's London Cockney Slang if I'm not mistaken, the word is used in London Cockney, but lately, other cities have been using truck more often, I guess, but that's my very limited number of British English. :/
Originally posted by Erik
What is a lorry? English slang?
Originally posted by nzueda
but, I guess English people understand both lorry and truck (my parents are English and use the word truck more often, but perhaps that's because they've been living in NZ for 40 odd years)
Originally posted by Rachel
Right ! A truck is a transporter with a cargo space fixed to the frame of the vehicle. A lorry is a transporter with a detachable cargo space pulled by a independent rig.
I hope this helps ?
Huggy Love, Rachel.
Originally posted by Erik
ic. A lorry is a specific kind of truck. =) That would make more sense. So properly, shouldn't it just be called a "lorry-truck" just like you would specify other types of trucks? Dump Truck?
Originally posted by Rachel
Err.. no erik. My point is a lorry isn't any kind of truck, because IT'S A LORRY !!! We don't class it as being anything else.
Originally posted by Erik
So the root word is still truck, and lorry is just another way to describe truck! Sounds like it was slang at one point!
Originally posted by Rachel
(Sound of head beating against a brick wall)
NO !
That's not it. It is NOT another way to describe a truck because there both SEPERATE ! A truck is a TRUCK and a lorry is a LORRY !!
look at my original definition : A truck is a transporter with a cargo space fixed to the frame of the vehicle.
A lorry is a transporter with a detachable cargo space pulled by a independent rig.
there both different.
Originally posted by Maciamo
- "rubber" : American say "eraser". For me, an eraser is a kind of pen that erase blue (cartridge) ink with one end and rewrite with the other end (never found any in Japan, BTW). Americans use "rubber" for condom, but not Brits.