A book that I read when I was a child was called "Are you my Mother?" A little bird had lost its mother, so it went searching around for her, asking various things if they were its mother.

One of the things it asked was a steam shovel, which replied in the only way it could... "SNORT!" (The snort being a blast of steam out of its pipes). My sister and I thought that that was actually what it was called, a Snort. One day at Primary School the teacher asked the class what this thing in the picture was, and my sister said "A Snort". Everyone laughed at her, and she came home, furious with my mother, that it had never been pointed out to her that it really wasn't called that.

I still think it's a great name for it, though.

/silen