Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[presta]

Well Cardiff Queen Street, which has been pedestrianised for at least 40 years was last updated August 2024

Yes, it hasn't gone unnoticed that there are pedestrian areas on Streetview, but ours isn't one of them, apparently. I could have sworn our shopping precinct was on Streetview too, but if so, it isn't any more. Perhaps it comes down to whether someone is willing to pay for it. The interior of a hotel I stayed at on Corfu used to be on Streetivew once, but it isn't now, so I assume the owners decided it wasn't worth the money.

 

[DaveReading]

The etymology of helicopter doesn't break it down into heli- and -copter. It breaks it down into helico- (spiral as in helix) and -pter (wing, as in pterodactyl)

The English word helicopter is adapted from the French word hélicoptère, coined by Gustave Ponton d'Amécourt in 1861, which originates from the Greek helix (ἕλιξ), genitive helikos (ἕλῐκος), "helix, spiral, whirl, convolution"[2] and pteron (πτερόν) "wing". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter

And in modern French, helice means propeller.