Roger Upole wrote: >>I wouldn't have figured out that a "car park" was a parking lot. I >>might have thought it was a park where you go to look at scenery from >>inside your car. Sort of a cross between a normal park and a drive-in >>movie > > > Just as another isolated data point, the first time I saw the > expression "car park", I went and looked it up. Even > though from the context the meaning seemed obvious, > I was left with some doubts as to whether it might have > some more specific connotations. For instance, it could > have referred to a metered lot, or to a parking garage > with time tickets, or even some kind of valet parking.
But a car park can be any one of those things, or something else such as an unmetered lot. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list