Grit bin for the local roads for winter

[Alan]

In message , Andy Burns wrote

[Dave Liquorice]

The great unwashed can be remarkably dim. As others have said how to shovel snow without doing your back or giving yourself a heart attack(*). Even the "common sense" of where to shift it to will illude some. There is also a tendency to lay the rock salt down as a contiguous layer, you don't need to do that.

(*) A number of people do die each year over exerting themselves clearing snow.

[David WE Roberts]

"Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press: illude /?'l(j)u?d/? ?verb literary trick; delude.

- origin ME: from L. illudere 'to mock'."

Possibly not what you meant but an interesting word.

elude, on the other hand, is perhaps less elusive a word ;-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Presumably from ludo - to make fun (a game) of..

[Dave Liquorice]

deceive or trick.

2.Obsolete. a. to mock or ridicule. b. to evade.

elude is the more correct word.

[Andy Champ]

You guys are wasting your time.

Did anyone ever find our whether Roger Chapman meant elusive or illusive? (29/11, climate model debate)

Andy

[David WE Roberts]

Persuing linguistic esoterica is never a waste of time :-)

[andyv]

In York they just drop off a blue builder's bag of road salt and keep topping it up. I used about a third of this and did the whole of our street with it (about 35 houses) last year. Since they've never been known to grit our street, it's only fair we don't pay extra for this.