"British English" speakers: What do you call a boat propelled by sails?

What is the *British* English term for a boat propelled by sails?

  • Sailboat

  • Sailing Boat

  • British English speakers use both terms equally

  • Some other option you want to be here but isn't


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gordmac

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Strange that so many use boat when the Oxford Companion to Ships andThe Sea says " the generic name for small open craft, without any decking and usually propelled by oars" and our forum hosts "Yachting and Boating". Once again it is demonstrated that the purpose of language is communication and we use the term which best communicates our idea at the time.
Problem with such communication is when people understand different things from a communication. I remember in my youth a friend asking me round for tea, I expected tea not dinner! Still I coped with the second dinner.
 

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Solved the problem


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