[projectaon] Re: Spellchecked 25totw

  • From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:42:09 +0100

On Saturday 17 January 2009, Jonathan Blake wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Ingo Kloecker
>
> <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 January 2009, Simon Osborne wrote:
> >> Oh, good grief . . . ;-)
> >>
> >> Ingo Kloecker wrote:
> >> > 21votm 179: and the engine sputters into life.
> >>
> >> OK as-is.
> >>
> >> > Looking for >splutter<...
> >> > 02smr 290: your engine begins to splutter and backfire.
> >> > 03toz 183: the engine starts to cough and splutter.
> >>
> >> OK as-is.
> >>
> >> > 03toz 106: the engine coughs and splutters into life.
> >>
> >> OK as-is
> >
> > There's a slight inconsistency here between the engine in 21votm
> > and the engines in 02smr and 03toz. But maybe engines in the world
> > of Lone Wolf sputter while engines in the world of Cal Phoenix
> > splutter. :-)
>
> I think in the case of engine, the can be said to "splutter" when
> they run roughly.

Yeah. In particular, the engines of large motorcycles sound as if they 
were spluttering. :-)


Regards,
Ingo

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