Re: spade and shovel (was [romconlang] -able)

B Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:01 PM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>> Barry Garcia wrote:
>
>>> I usually use spade to refer to the small hand shovel used for
>>> planting small plants like bulbs and plants in quart pots.
>>>
>>  Trowel, trowel, trowel ;-))))
>>
>
> I once used "secateur" to refer to "Pruning shears" on one of my
> gardening lists and one member somewhat rudely made a big deal of this
> new foreign word. He must not watch British gardening shows :).
>
> Yes, trowel is a name for it, but I use spade because few people know
> what a trowel is :D.
And here I thought a trowel was one of those things bricklayers use.

Minza has a distinct lack of tool words; I'll need to take a look at
this when I get some time.

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