"Rich Ahrens" wrote in message
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Peter Duniho wrote:

"Scott M. Kozel" wrote in message
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Kerosene is the American word for paraffin - they are the same stuff.
Jets still run on it.

Actually the reverse is true - 'paraffin' is the British word for what
Americans call 'kerosene'.


Huh? What's the difference?

Seems to me you're arguing something like whether "moi" is the French
word
for "me" or "me" is the English word for "moi".

Or did you not notice that the person to whom you were disagreeing was
from
the UK neighborhood of the English-speaking world?

You're forgetting that Scott believes everything on Usenet should be
posted from a U.S. perspective. See, for example, his rants about an
April Fools Day joke posted on 4/1 in the poster's timezone, but before
the date rolled over in the U.S.

Maybe this is why the brits refer to Kerosene as Paraffin:-

Kindly supplied by Scott himself

".....thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins."

Makes sense to call it Paraffin if that's what it is.