Jeff Jones wrote:
>
>Interesting -- I've known the spade only as a small digging tool with just
>enough handle for one hand and a narrow almost pointed blade. You have to
>sit or kneel to use it.
Oh noez. That's a trowel.
I think "some people" need to get out and dig in the dirt a bit
more.........:-)))))
Anything else is a shovel, including the small plastic toy
>used by small children at the beach. And, to save a post somewhere along,
>the thing they put the sand into can be either a bucket or a pail. "Bucket"
>seems to be the more general word, with "pail" never used for anything
>heavy-
>duty.
Bucket vs. pail used to be a major isolgloss in US dialectology, though I've
never been sure how it worked. The 2 were alwys synonymous for me.
>
>BTW I don't think I've ever seen a snow shovel, for some reason.
Lucky you ;-)))