"Roy Badami" wrote in message

In article . li,
Tom Anderson wrote:
Which is what the man on the Clapham omnibus (or the man usually
found driving the Harrow cab) means by 'articulated'. They care not
for the disbursement of bogies.

I think that, to the man on the Clapham omnibus, 'articulated' is a
type of lorry

Absolutely -- normals don't talk about articulated trains. Even London's
articulated buses are invariably called bendy buses, not artic-buses.