Is This Magazine Genuine?

[Alan de Enfield]

Making mountains outa mole hills ain't ya guys? Regardless to what you choose to call them, chargers, stripper clips, whatever, DO THEY NOT both serve the exact same purpose in the exact same way...and that is to bind individual rounds together so as to facilitate loading of said rounds into the magazine.

Nomenclature is important.

A Rifle No1 Mk3 and a rifle No3 Mk1, both fire 303 ammunition and shoot the 'Hun'. Both serve exactly the same purpose. Both were used concurrently, but they are NOT the same.

Is it unreasonable to expect the use of a common terminology to avoid misunderstandings.


A 'tank of gas' (LPG) in the UK is very different to a 'tank of gas' (gasoline) in the US.

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[Flying10uk]

A 'tank of gas' (LPG) in the UK is very different to a 'tank of gas' (gasoline) in the US.

For a time, as a child, I thought that Americans ran their cars on Vaseline (the ointment) because I had miss heard it off a film, Vaseline for gasoline. I couldn't work out why we ran our cars on petrol in the UK but in the US cars were run on an ointment.