I find it very disconcerting that the British refer to the bobsled as the bobsleigh. Sleighs are for things like Santa Claus and going to grandmother's house, over the river and through snow. Sleds are fast and fun and Olympic in nature.
I also find it disturbing that the British refer to the leader of the curling team as the skip. They also refer to the big containers for trash removal as skips. They are wrong: the captain of a team is a skipper and I can't think of the name for the other thing, but I'm pretty sure it isn't a skip.
A skipper can also be the captain of a ship.
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