Notices..what have you spotted?

[NewcastleFalcon]

Reminds me of the only use of the word occasionally formerly used on signs. Two occurrences I can think of....

Impracticable

Falcon Original

Whatever happened to this word..

Impracticable



There is/was at least one survivor of those signs in situ near Knill which made it to the 2000's


and at least one fingerpost sign just out of St Winnow and heading towards Lostwithiel in Cornwall

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.3879919 ... 312!8i6656

Neil

[CitroJim]

There's a lot who won't even know what that word means! Is it even a recognised word

Love those old signs... Full of character. We are poorer for no longer having them...

[myglaren]

There's a lot who won't even know what that word means! Is it even a recognised word

Love those old signs... Full of character. We are poorer for no longer having them...

I've just finished a book called "The Dictionary Of Lost Words", a superb book set around the late 1800s/early 1900s and it is an eye opener the way that our language has degenerated. Basically the production of the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language but with a quite fascinating and cheeky side operation, the said dictionary of lost words.
While I was quite entranced by the characters and the plot, I was staggered to find that it was essentially true, just some fiddling with the names and characters a bit.

I generally moan on about American spelling, pronunciation and their made up words but it has to be acknowledged that we too are contributors to the general degeneration.

[bobins]

'As far as is reasonably practicable ' is a stock phrase well loved by the health and safety fraternity and is still in use today It's a term that, unsurprisingly, can ultimately only be determined in court

[Peter.N.]

A bit like our track Jim, unless you are very brave.

Peter

[myglaren]

[CitroJim]

A bit like our track Jim, unless you are very brave.

Sounds like it'll be an adventure Peter. Pleased Mick is driving when we visit you!!!

[MattBLancs]

Seen online, like it

[CitroJim]

This is always a good one to see

Not all may agree These signs are put out all along our Monday evening TT race courses to advise all road users...

They are strictly temporary and removed as soon as the race is over...

[Peter.N.]

Reminds me of the north of Scotland, many of the lamp posts on the A9 north of Inverness have bikes chained to them, anyone know what that's about?

Peter

[CitroJim]

Reminds me of the north of Scotland, many of the lamp posts on the A9 north of Inverness have bikes chained to them, anyone know what that's about?

I hear their owners were eaten by midges and left only their bikes behind as midges find them hard to digest....

[myglaren]

[Rp0thejester]

Finally, it's spelled correctly

[CitroJim]

Finally, it's spelled correctly

Good, it always annoys me when I see our words Americanised... If the trend continues we'll soon be spelling things with a Z (zed, not zee) in place of an S... The Yanks may be lovely people but their command of English is dreadful...

[myglaren]

I always have to change the language from the default US English to English when opening my three Gmail accounts.
OS and browsers are all set to UK English bit despite all this I still get the wiggly red worm and hosts of zeeeees.
And admonishments for using u's.

Read a nitwit question recently; why don't we call it "New Zedland"?