| Re: The Ford Ka and its bollardHoward, on host 209.86.39.51 Monday, August 27, 2001, at 04:17:41
 Re: The Ford Ka posted by Zarniwoop on Sunday, August 26, 2001, at 14:56:34:
 The garage gave him a courtesy Ford Ka.  > While driving it, he was required to make a left turn into a driveway every day.  He kept bumping the bollard on the inside of the turn.
 
 OK.  I give up.  What's a bollard?  Is it just one of those British terms like windscreen, tyre, boot, silencer, and bonnet?  Do I have one on my Toyota? I tried pronouncing it in Spanish and it came out boyard.  I wonder what it is in American.
 It could be the bumper or the rocker panel.
 
 And a Ford Ka?  That sounds like New York or New England where every car is a Ka, as in "I'll go pock th' ka."  I suppose some people in the islands might talk that way too.
 
 Monolingual people like me have problems with such things. Down here in Dixie, I don't reckon we have any words like that.
 Howard
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