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JohnBooty 7 days ago

Wow. As an American, I didn't know we had special feelings about wrenches!

JdeBP 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Heh! Your feelings are so strong that you don't even call a spanner a spanner because the word entered mainstream English (during the industrial revolution) after U.S.A. independence. (-:

PlunderBunny 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, I didn't believe it at the time - it was just one of those overly broad generalisations people do.