| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Question for perhaps the 'older' forumers (re motor car) | |
| Posted by: | Delilah Hall | |
| Date/Time: | 15/08/14 19:42:00 |
| It is from 'Tom's Midnight Garden' (Philippa Pearce) - my most favourite book if I could only choose one - on page two of the first chapter.. QUOTE...'Hush!' whispered his mother, looking past him to the road and the car that waited there and the man at its driving-wheel... END QUOTE I have never had a problem understanding this - but a friend who has recently read the book for the first time as an adult reckons the publishers should have had it changed to 'steering wheel' and I jolly well disagree! Friendly dispute, no blood will be spilt, but I merely wondered if others had actually heard of it being called that. |