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

In a message dated 4/16/2008 21:15:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
hmiller@IO.COM writes:


> >>> 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.
>
This evening I asked a man in his 70s what such a tool was called, and he
said "a trowel".  I still wouldn't call it a trowel, though.

stevo   </HTML>