Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons

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Odd Melee weapons Charles McKnight (10 Sep 2021 21:25 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Timothy Collinson (10 Sep 2021 22:03 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Rupert Boleyn (10 Sep 2021 22:07 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Charles McKnight (10 Sep 2021 22:14 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Zane Healy (10 Sep 2021 22:20 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Jeff Zeitlin (10 Sep 2021 23:41 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Cian Witherspoon (10 Sep 2021 23:24 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Jeff Zeitlin (10 Sep 2021 23:40 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Mark Urbin (11 Sep 2021 01:54 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Graham Donald (11 Sep 2021 10:39 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Bruce Johnson (12 Sep 2021 22:31 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Ingo Siekmann (11 Sep 2021 15:06 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Melee weapons Rupert Boleyn 10 Sep 2021 22:07 UTC


On 11Sep2021 1003, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk
(via tml list) wrote:
> Of course, I've been told off - or at least been corrected or given puzzled
> looks - for asking for a tankard in a pub when I meant, apparently, a jug.
> I now understand that a tankard will be metal (and may or may not haveba
> flip lid) and won't generally be in a British pub.  A jug is what I thought
> was a glass with a handle.  (And is what I wanted - grip and/or DEX not
> being what I was.)
Here in NZ we're very sophisticated, and call that a 'handle'.

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