> You can put your microtome away. Anyway, it's not meant for splitting hairs. :p... RV may not be only American, but it's still not UK English.
The U.K. has about 1 million 'leisure' caravans. Europe as a whole, about 5,230,000. My microtome shows the U.S. accounts for 60% of global RV sales, growing at 8% annually, and "In 2017, the US accounted for 91.07% globally" for related goods and services, with some *9 million RVs* licensed in use. A million permanently live in their RVs ( h ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/12/million-americans-live-rvs-meet-modern-nomads/ ). About 40% of those a are senior citizen 'snow birds' who are essentially migratory between their children's home cities and site in the American South and Southwest. Anecdotally, I know large numbers of homeless people are living in unregistered, immobile, or otherwise invisible statistically RVs ( https://komonews.com/news/local/rv-campers-filling-everett-streets-but-where-are-they-supposed-to-go ). It is also enshrined in U.S. Department of Transportation lexicon of regulations, including signage, ditto with every state and local municipalitie's transportation departments. All commercial signage is 'RV' for goods and services, including sales of vehicles. It is embedded in economic statistical data "RV Park NAICS Code: 721211 SIC Code: 7033". National, State, and local business directories like the ubiquitous Yellow Pages have an RV category. The U.S. Census American Community Survey has RV housing statistics. My guess is that Canada is somewhat similar. Lemme think ... over the past 50 years living and traveling across the United States, I have seen the word 'caravan' ... maybe a few times, in reference to the very few Rom who still migrate from city to city. Never on a sign. Except maybe for the 'Dodge Caravan' model minivan ( which isn't even suitable as a camper : -) All else being equal,and in the absence of other sources, the British vernacular tradition, might hold, but the in this case the overwhelming use of the term in official, commerce, and common use would indicate it should be included in parallel, but certainly not at the expense of 'caravan'. Michael Patrick Data Ferret
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