Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[raleighnut]

Straight and narrow as in ‘road’, afaik. Strait refers to a body of water. Or a situation in life. Hence ‘he found himself in dire straits’. You’ve got to love the English language. In what other could you write a viable sentence using one word?

Perkele..................................... (Finnish/Soumi)

 

[Punkawallah]

Perkele..................................... (Finnish/Soumi)

‘A group of words expressing a clear thought’. Plural.

 

[stephec]

There are at least five or six speed cameras between junctions 16 and 19 on the M6, if I get on at 19 and get straight up to 90mph, and don't drop below that before getting off at 16, could I argue that I should only get one ticket as I've only committed one continuous offence, rather than a ticket from each camera?

 

[ktmbiker58]

My question of the day is this - How on earth did this multi-user-path cost £1,000,000 ?

I love any new bit of cycling infrastructure but something isn't quite right that this 300m stretch cost a cool million, it's along the edge of the farmers field, they didn't even take out the old hedge, they did dig him a new culvert and retention pond plus he now has a lovely new fence with new gates where he used to have an old hedge and no gates before but even that comes up well short of a million quid in my view, at this rate it's going to cost at least another £10m to get anywhere useful. No response to my FOI request yet.

The furthest telegraph pole is on the main road just beyond the start of the MUP, north bound cyclists are taken off the main road at a point where the traffic is slow as there is a 30mph limit and a roundabout to negoitiate, and then rejoin the main road at a point where the traffic has accelerated up to 50-60mph, southbound cyclists are directed to turn right at the part of the main road where the traffic is doing 50-60mph and then rejoin the main road at the slow end but have to cross the road.

Users have to rejoin the main road

I understand some local rascals on e-bikes have been using it for drag racing - some impressive skid marks as you can see!

Here it is being built

 

[Yellow Fang]

The legal phrase 'habeas corpus': it means may you have the body, or something like that. I think habeas is in the subjunctive. Why isn't it 'habeas corpum' ? Surely corpus should be in the accusative.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Straight and narrow as in ‘road’, afaik. Strait refers to a body of water. Or a situation in life. Hence ‘he found himself in dire straits’. You’ve got to love the English language. In what other could you write a viable sentence using one word?

There is that poem Invictus, which goes,
"It matters not how strait the gate / how charged with punishments the scroll / I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul."
So a gate can be strait. Perhaps 'strait' is another word for 'narrow', or maybe it means 'difficult to pass through'.

 

[Punkawallah]

There is that poem Invictus, which goes,
"It matters not how strait the gate / how charged with punishments the scroll / I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul."
So a gate can be strait. Perhaps 'strait' is another word for 'narrow', or maybe it means 'difficult to pass through'.

Strait of Gibraltar is narrow.

 

[slow scot]

The legal phrase 'habeas corpus': it means may you have the body, or something like that. I think habeas is in the subjunctive. Why isn't it 'habeas corpum' ? Surely corpus should be in the accusative.

It’s a third declension noun, therefore the accusative is “corpus”. It does look like a second declension noun though, so an easy mistake to make.

 

[Animo]

Now write out "Romans go home" 100 times

 

[DaveReading]

The legal phrase 'habeas corpus': it means may you have the body, or something like that. I think habeas is in the subjunctive. Why isn't it 'habeas corpum' ? Surely corpus should be in the accusative.

Habeas is indeed a second person present subjunctive.

Corpus is a third declension noun, which means that the nominative and accusative forms are the same.

 

[grldtnr]

Bought some breaded sliced ham, but why bread it, even if it is breaded crumb. Makes no discernable difference.

 

[Hover Fly]

Are mu bike tyres pumped up enough for tomorrow’s ride into Passau?

 

[Alex321]

Bought some breaded sliced ham, but why bread it, even if it is breaded crumb. Makes no discernable difference.

I think the crust of breadcrumbs is supposed to help keep it moist when cooking.

 

[slow scot]

Now write out "Romans go home" 100 times

“Romani ite domum” I think is correct. Will once do?

 

[grldtnr]

I think the crust of breadcrumbs is supposed to help keep it moist when cooking.

Well, in my opinion it doesn't add anything gastronomic, I maybe could understand if it was a proper hauch of ham when cooked, but mostly it's air cured or smoked , that's the definition not ham or gammon, or it's boiled, a lot of what they call ham is from reformed from cuts, and adulterated with injected water and other questionable substances.
Having written all that, I wish I never bought the stuff now, put me right of eating it!