[Tagging] Tagging scrapyards, junkyards

[Philip Barnes]

On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 12:22 -0500, EthnicFood IsGreat wrote:
> > 
> I thought scrapyards and junkyards were two different entities.  This
> is how I think of them.
> 
> Scrapyards are places whose primary purpose is to buy items that are
> no longer wanted (typically metal objects) and then sell them for the
> value of their raw materials.  Junkyards are places whose primary
> purpose is to sell intact vehicle parts from wrecks to people who are
> repairing a vehicle.  Definitely not the same thing.
> 
As a native speaker I see the two as the same thing, scrapyard being
British English, junkyard American English.

Phil (trigpoint)