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>>>>>True - but the scenery is better and I'd rather die on a mountain than under a truck :-}
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>>>>Truck ? What happened to lorrie ? ( or is it lorry ?)
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>>>Creeping Americanism. In my case I blame it on too many years on the road :-}
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>>I say truck sometimes and the furthest west I've ever been is a beach near St Davids in Pembroke.
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>But do you say "elevator"?

We do! It's the screw-in-a-gutter contraption that is used when unloading corn cobs from a trailer into a silo (or what passes for a silo in our rural architecture - it's a slat cage with a roof, usually with a pig pen underneath).