You know bendy roads right?

How do you spell when you say they're windy?

Is it winedy?

Or windey?

Or windy?

.45auto

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How do you spell when you say they're windy?

Is it winedy?

Or windey?

Or windy?

Winedey

Windy

Winding :pac:

donvito99

I believe the technical term is squiggly.

artanevilla

Windy.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windy

Zaph

Winedie.

Mech1

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/windy#nav2

Rayne Wooney

Why are roads bendy and not all in a straight line?

Zaph

Zaph wrote: »

Winedie.

I think I've had too much wine. Die.

Meandering.

Rayne Wooney

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Why are roads bendy and not all in a straight line?

Road frontage, innit.

Eugene Norman

Wind is spelt the same as wind, but pronounced differently.

Candie

Candie wrote: »

Meandering.

I actually LOVE that word.

Mostly for when I'm walking though.

I'll be walking home from the pub now in a minute and I shall be meandering.

Into The Blue

B

Eugene Norman

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Wind is spelt the same as wind, but pronounced differently.

Jesus.

I feel stupid now.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

I actually LOVE that word.

Mostly for when I'm walking though.

I'll be walking home from the pub now in a minute and I shall be meandering.

As opposed to staggering? Make sure you have your Hi Vis jacket on on these dark nights - assuming you live down a long and winding road!

Thread needs a Beatles soundtrack.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

As opposed to staggering? Make sure you have your Hi Vis jacket on on these dark nights - assuming you live down a long and winding road!

It's windy.

That's why I asked. I'm sorry I didn't drive to the pub because sure the road is windy anyway so I would have been grand.

kneemos

Cornery.

Candie

Candie wrote: »

Thread needs a Beatles soundtrack.

All together now


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIHEuYfDypg

Candie

Candie wrote: »

Thread needs a Beatles soundtrack.

In penny lane there is a barber showing photographs!

I don't know why I immediately thought of that song

Baron Kurtz

Deleted User wrote: »

How do you spell when you say they're windy?

Is it winedy?

Or windey?

Or windy?

You love chattering away like a 4-year-old.

mynameis905

Surely 'winding road' is the correct way of saying it?

cml387

This reminds me of the film "Throw Momma From The Train" where the Billy Crystal character is trying to write a novel and is having difficulty with a description of a particular night.
"It was warm but wet"
"It was moist but warm"
"It was humid but wet"

For the payoff line, Momma is listening to Crystal's tortured meanderings and says..

"The night was sultry"

To which Crystal replies "I'm gonna kill the bitch".

Baron Kurtz

Baron Kurtz wrote: »

You love chattering away like a 4-year-old.

4 and three quarters.

mynameis905

mynameis905 wrote: »

Surely 'winding road' is the correct way of saying it?

I say windy, and don't call me surely.

dandyelevan

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Why are roads bendy and not all in a straight line?

I asked a Council Engineer that same question once.
'How come the road between Kilbeggan and Mullingar has a bad bend every fifty yards,' I asked?
According to my learned friend, roads were designed like that deliberately, to keep 'motor car drivers' alert at their wheels.
As good an answer as any I suppose.

Lia_lia

I remember I was writing a post about bendy roads recently. Posted it as "windy roads", thought it looked wrong, then googled how to spell "windy". Then just left it.

Eugene Norman

dandyelevan wrote: »

I asked a Council Engineer that same question once.
'How come the road between Kilbeggan and Mullingar has a bad bend every fifty yards,' I asked?
According to my learned friend, roads were designed like that deliberately, to keep 'motor car drivers' alert at their wheels.
As good an answer as any I suppose.

Or that's bollocks and they fall ancient pathways.

murphyebass

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Why are roads bendy and not all in a straight line?

So cyclists can hide around them begging to be ploughed into.

SEPT 23 1989

Curvaceous

Archeron

I would say windy, but would be more likely to say bendy. Bendy is a cool word and I like to say it as often as possible

hardCopy

There's a place in Mayo called The Windy Gap. It's a series of tight bends on an exposed hillside.

I'd read the name on a description of a cycling route but for months I hadn't a notion how to ask anyone for directions.

When I eventually said it out loud I got it wrong.

Trebor176

Twisty

fatknacker

hardCopy wrote: »

There's a place in Mayo called The Windy Gap. .

You've a windy gap.

Realtine

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Or that's bollocks and they fall ancient pathways.

yea thats what I was always told, they just followed old horse paths and lanes and such.

dandyelevan

The Mullingar / Kilbeggan road appears to follow a cow rambling track alright.


Some old Chariot Way roads are still in existence, straight as a die with hardly a bend in them, that is until modern demands interfered with them.
Shannonbridge to Tullamore through Cloghan is just one example.

blackcard

dandyelevan wrote: »

I asked a Council Engineer that same question once.
'How come the road between Kilbeggan and Mullingar has a bad bend every fifty yards,' I asked?
According to my learned friend, roads were designed like that deliberately, to keep 'motor car drivers' alert at their wheels.
As good an answer as any I suppose.

It is one of the reasons, people tend to lose concentration if they are driving straight for a long time. Another reason is that the lights from oncoming traffic would be constantly in your eyes at nighttime.

I meandered home. Was a lovely walk. I say lovely. I mean long. Effort of it like.

Eugene Norman

Realtine wrote: »

yea thats what I was always told, they just followed old horse paths and lanes and such.

Yes. Except the ones built recently and some road straightenings most country roads are old pathways.

Eugene Norman

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I meandered home. Was a lovely walk. I say lovely. I mean long. Effort of it like.

Was it a windy windy road? Or was there no wind and little meandering?

kneemos

They have to put the roads where the houses are,or what's the point of having a road?

kneemos

kneemos wrote: »

They have to put the roads where the houses are,or what's the point of having a road?

Use yer own flippin thread.


















(Only joking you know I love you really)

dandyelevan

Deleted User wrote: »

How do you spell when you say they're windy?

Is it winedy?

Or windey?

Or windy?

Now see what you started

wendell borton

Everbody knows its windy.:pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYT9Vyu62A

cml387

Adding to the whimsy of the thread..

There's a place near Carrick On Suir called Windgap. But locally it's pronounced Wyndgap.

Capt'n Midnight

Deleted User wrote: »

I actually LOVE that word.

Mostly for when I'm walking though.

I'll be walking home from the pub now in a minute and I shall be meandering.

Named after the serpentine progression of the Menderes (Büyük) river which offers a visualisation of Pi.



AH answer
Around here to avoid confusion they take in the roads when there's a lot of wind.

Eugene Norman

cml387 wrote: »

Adding to the whimsy of the thread..

There's a place near Carrick On Suir called Windgap. But locally it's pronounced Wyndgap.

Which is incorrect of them since the Irish is Bearna na Gaoithe

indioblack

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Curvaceous

Ah! Curvaceous. Drive along a curvaceous road.
Makes me want to leap into my Nissan Micra right now.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Curly.