trunk vs boot

[Beverly Flanigan]

And I've had students from very far south in Ohio (Portsmouth, Ironton) who 
also use 'boot'.  Is it perhaps South Midland, or more generally Southern?

At 01:06 PM 12/2/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>"Boot" was/is?? widely used in Texas also.
>
>Catherine Merlen wrote:
>
> > le 2/12/02 18:36, Erin Conley à ekconley at HOTMAIL.COM a écrit :
> >
> > > In the small Kentucky community, where I grew up, people always 
> referred to
> > > the "trunk" of the car as the "boot."  I always thought it was the 
> southern
> > > way of saying it, until I first went to college in the mountains of 
> Eastern
> > > Kentucky.  It was there that my new friends laughed their heads off at
> > > hearing me say this.  Someone told me that is how they refer to it in
> > > England.  Does anyone know if theret is truth to that?  Since that 
> time, I
> > > have never heard any other Kentuckians refer to it as a "boot" other than
> > > those who live in my little community.
> > --
> >
> > Indeed, the boot is the trunk in england. They even have boot-sales here,
> > some sort of swapmart or garage sales out of the boot of their cars.
> >
> > Catherine