A spanner wrench is a clever redundancy to say the same thing twice. Much
like the term "ink pen". Just more fine examples how we are great nations
kept apart by a common language <vbg>
John P
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there is no "never" - just long periods of "not yet".
Chris Barker <cmib@xxxxxxxxxxx> wondered:
>All right, I give up on the language front! I thought a "spanner" as we
>would describe it over this side of the Pond (GB) would be called a
>"wrench" in the US. But WIH is a "spanner wrench"?
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