Sheldon Brown wrote:
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> Brits also use such terms as "seat mast"
Also seat pin and seat pillar. Tyres are tires. And the trunk of a car is a boot to them, the windshield a windscreen etc. etc etc..
As Sir Winston said so famously, the Americans and the British are separated by a common language.
We Canadians fall (in several ways) somewhere in between.
Emanuel Lowi
Montreal