Posted by Alex Forbes on June 26, 2007 at 21:49:18 from 4.242.120.199 user Pitsligo.
In Reply to: Re: Ships, boats and submarines posted by 3rdamazon on June 21, 2007 at 16:58:09:
Re: referring to submarines as boats, I seem to recall that submarines were initially, in official parlance, "submarine torpedo boats", which might help explain their perpetual identity as "boats" rather than ships. The genotype evolved, but the linguistic mitochondria remained...
Alex