Motors vs. Engines

[slaphead]

@Napier

Stranger, I think it’s only accurate to say “engine” implies what you say it does in the specific case of a “heat engine”.

I thought air was a compressible fluid, and therefore his definition would cover IC engines too?

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@MrFloppy

In the vernacular of most Londoners (and possibly the majority of their fellow countrymen) a ‘motor’ is the whole car.

As in ‘Ullo John Got A New Motor’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGMTCfjnP6Y

I’ve heard of this, but I thought it was very old fashioned, sort of like “motorcar”. Funny that Americans say “car” and the British say “motor”. Two words divided from one by a common language.