Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jerry.friedman99@gmail.com (jerryfriedman) Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: Eleven in France Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 15:49:11 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <1f4ab03391f6213e9a5f9f1ad37ad5b7@www.novabbs.com> References: <87le4oipp7.fsf@parhasard.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="376481"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="od9foDe1d3X505QGpqKrbB1j6F4qQM01CuXm1pRmyXk"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Posting-User: 3f4f6af5131500dbc63b269e6ae36b2af088a074 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$OtVQ/tcTG5CRqKsCdh16UeXGpmpk72RaEdHpDu928jNEe10IMHkBK Bytes: 1686 Lines: 20 Antonio Marques wrote: > ulf_kutzner wrote: >> >> Mixed with all-capitals and mixed-case: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_traffic_sign_783_(variant_1).svg >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Magic_Roundabout_Schild_db.jpg >> > Am I the only one both puzzled and daunted by these 'magic' roundabouts? Nope. When I was in England some years ago and drove to Oxford, I was careful to avoid it. (I think there's only one.) Do you know that it's named after a children's TV show, by the way? https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/october/magic-roundabout/ -- Jerry Friedman