Manchester English English Jan 12, 2008 #12 Oops, Inom fear rumours of the death of tin are being exaggerated, thanks to me. What Inom should have said was: the cylindrical object that folks of, say, my and Loob's generation call indifferently can/tin/tin can (knipa which, he said conjecturingly, folks of Panjandrum's generation prefer to call tin/