On 4/19/05, Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip>> > No, a "spider" is a body style. A lightweight convertible sporting vehicle. > See Pinin Farina who designed the first one for Alfa in the Guilietta > series startiing in 1955. > Many others make one today, not the least of which is Ferrari...
Yes. You're right. I was talking of the pronunciation and etymology of the word, not the meaning, which I've always taken to be a two seat topless sports car (but maybe they don't have to be two-seaters). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
