Talk:Catapult

Catapult
The Brits tend to call anything that catapults a projectile a catapult. The dictionaries use both slingshot and boulder launcher as definitions but catapult instead of slingshot is used only in the UK. The thing is that catapult as boulder launcher is also used in the UK.

This is toys in the UK so not the best source and expect you to delete the links after viewing - but it shows pictures of the more conventional definition of a catapult and it being used in the UK - which is the only purpose of it. When the same store sells to Canada, the packaging is in both English and French so they would change the word if they felt it necessary for a British audience.  (Vaudree (talk) 05:47, February 23, 2016 (UTC))