More 9.11-Related Words

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:37 pm -0500 Tom Kysilko
<pds at VISI.COM> wrote:

> Box cutter
>
> Although it was not hard to guess what this is, the term was new to me.  I
> know the implement as a "utility knife".  Is this regional, or am I just
> overly sheltered?


In the UK media, especially at the beginning when reports were just coming
in, they'd say "box cutters--by which the Americans presumably mean
'Stanley knives'" or "box cutters--which we think might be something like
Stanley knives".

Lynne


M Lynne Murphy
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