Agreed, Q. The Americans feel it necessary to modify it with a 'field' to distinguish it from the there predominating 'ice' sort. But it is therefore, as I aver, an Americanism, superfluous in our leading daily paper

~~ the point I made in starting this thread, and have been making thruout it ~~

i.e. that there is nothing wrong with any of these usages where they belong ~ over there ~ but are grey squirrels to our red squirrels when they start to replace &/or render obsolete our own usages.

~M~