LornaW opened this issue on Oct 03, 2006 · 104 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 05 October 2006 at 12:12 AM
The modern elevator was invented over here 
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blelevator.htm
And as the story goes: we call it an elevator. But hey - I'm not prejudiced. "Lift" is fine. As is "loo", I suppose. Although I never use either term. I'd get funny looks if I did.