Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fun-with-English question: Is a 'sandtrap' the normal US word
> for what we over here call a 'bunker'? Is 'bunker' also used?
We do (or the announcer on the weekend T.V. do) use both, but the idea
of being "In the bunker" has a little more baggage than being in a
sandtrap. But, I suppose that's another U.S. biased observation.
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Andy Bach, Sys. Mangler
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> 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.
