On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Ralph Ausmann wrote: > I always flinched a little when I hear people call an "internal combustion > engine" a "motor". I alternately use 'engine' and 'motor' for effect, usually the one that sounds the most old-fashioned, especially when discussing such things with nubile grad students, just to keep them scared of me. After all, they're ALL just new-fangled contraptions that probably don't work, anyways.