Put-Outer

[davewitley]

No: HPFGUIDX 37058

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
>  And why does JKR, a master 
> of inventing clever names like veritaserum and pensieve, resort to 
a 
> clunky name like Put-Outer?
> 
It may be cultural.  To my half-English ears, it does not seem 
clunky.  My son has a little gadget that Lego supply to take apart 
bricks that are jammed together.  It has no name so we call it the 
taker-aparter.  I think inventions of that sort are fairly common 
here.  Washer-upper for example.

I agree it is of a different type to Pensieve.

Is that not true in the US?  Can UK people confirm?

Answers may have to drift in the general direction of OT.

David