Mark Robinson wrote:
On 21/04/2011 09:33, Graeme Wall wrote:

Pedantically they have motors, not engines. The latter being those nasty
infernal combustion thingies. Motors run on nice clean electrickery.

Doubly pedantically, a motor *is* an engine (an engine isn't always
a motor, though, cf siege engine, difference engine, database engine...)
No.
The use of "engine" for electric motor is unheard of.
Technically it may be called a "machine".

Calling a motor an engine is as daft as calling a cl. 45 Peak a
hexadecimalcycle.


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