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When a bomb goes off, some fragments go to different directions and may hit and injure people.
What do you call these dangerous fragments in English?
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When a bomb goes off, some fragments go in different directions and may hit and injure people.
What do you call these dangerous fragments in English?
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Schrapnel. It's a German word, I believe, but it's the one we use.
 

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The more common spelling is shrapnel.
 

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The more common spelling is shrapnel.

I'm seriously starting to wonder how I was school spelling champion for 8 years in a row! I've always spelt it with a "c" and thought it was German. Not that I didn't believe you, Rover, but various dictionaries backed you up (of course).
 

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Until today, I would have said that emsr2d2 was right, and Bob wrong.

We live and learn.:oops:

PHP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrapnel_shell
 

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Until today, I would have said that emsr2d2 was right, and Bob wrong.

We live and learn.:oops:

It was me wot writ it - not Bob.:puppydog:
 

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