I rang a guy called Lyn (Lin? Lynn?) today about hiring or perhaps puchasing a pair of PA speakers. This was on behalf of my Congolese friends, of course.
I offered to talk to "a guy called Lyn" (he is very emphatic about the "guy" bit) because my African friends command of English is patchy. I don't really know whether I was any use as Lyn spoke a third language - "Roadiese". He kept referring to "cabs". "A couple of cabs", "a decent pair of second-hand cabs".
It turns out that "cabs" are speaker cabinets. Why? Everyone else calls them speakers, so why "cabs"? And, apparently, they "chuck out" sound. For example: "You'll need a decent pair of 15 inch cabs to chuck out two mikes and a keyboard, obviously".
Obviously.
My francophone African friends have it just right when they refer to them as "baffles"!
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