> > Fun-with-English question: Is a 'sandtrap' the normal
> > US word for what we over here call a 'bunker' Is
> > 'bunker' also used?
>
> Both are listed ("sand trap" is spelled with a space)
> in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary and in The
> American Heritage Dictionary (3rd ed.). There's no
> indication of a preference for either, and no indication
> that "bunker" is in any way un-American.
>
> My only UK dictionary is the compact OED. It lists
> "bunker" but not "sand trap", and it says that "bunker"
> is Scottish. But then that part of the dictionary was
> written in the 1880s.
Are you surprised "bunker" is a Scottish word? Since we
Scots invented golf, I guess we were entitled to attach our
words to the game.
The old course (St Andrews)is only about 40 miles away from
where I live, and apparently there are 43 golf courses in
Fife... so maybe I should be taking more interest in the
meatspace version. ;)
Jonathan Paton
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