OT: Why are 3 door cars allowed on the road?

We have abnormal loads. You can also use the word unusual if you don't want to convey so strong a meaning.

It's possible enough times to not worry about it.

Doesn't matter where they are. The load presumably slid.

They can probably beat the highway code.

With or without a seatbelt.

Not in everyday language. We say "perpendicular".

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No we don't.

Perpendicular means 'straight up and down', and (without checking) I guess is related to 'suspended' (ie hanging). To illustrate how wrong you are, something which is at 90 degrees to the surface of a perpendicular wall is horizontal.

No, it does not mean straight up and down.

1. at an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface. "dormers and gables that extend perpendicular to the main roofline"

If I take two pieces of wood and join them perpendicular I can still mount them on a wall at any angle and they are still perpendicular to each other.

The cops in the city near where I grew up were rough on equipment, chasing speeders, and all that wild west stuff. The city came up with a solution -- 6 cylinder Plymouth Valiants and not the hot A38 police model. They couldn't catch a 10 year old on a Sturmey-Archer equipped three speed so why bother?

Plumb implies something perpendicular to the horizon. In older houses a wall may be perpendicular to the floor but by no means plumb.

You can't have got to an adult age and confuse vertical and perpendicular, surely?

I've ever head of normal to mean at right angles. Perpendicular, or in Maths, orthogonal.

Dunno what a prime mover is.

I've seen one do so. I asked a friend how fast they can stop, so he showed me, without much warning I might add.

Who cares about low speed stuff, you just drive around that.

Don't try evading the police in Dubai:

"Normal" meaning right-angle, is a fairly specialised usage, limited to maths. I wonder how . In typical speech, "right-angle" or "perpendicular" is far more common. And it's every day speech that we are talking about.

There's also the little matter of the normal distribution in statistics. As far as I am aware, there is no sense of orthogonal/right-angles/90 degrees in that.

I certainly agree that "regular" to mean "typical" or "unexceptional" gets my goat too. "Regular" to me implies at equal intervals of space or time - a ruler marked at regular intervals of 1 centimetre or a clock which ticks at regular intervals of 1/2 second. But I accept and understand that Americans also use it to mean "typical". But as a British person, I don't use it this way: I've never felt the urge to adopt Americanisms to sound "cool".

Ah, I do remember that from university now. But it wasn't used often.

So you'd never explain something to me by saying "now what you're gonna want to do is tighten the screw" instead of the British version of "tighten the screw".

_______ Thanks for sharing that brochure! What a time trip!

Why can't you use the less ambiguous term "perpendicular"?

And the government only release stats selectively too.

Less than being crushed or burned in the car.

A bridge is a common thing to crash into the edge of. Side winds and so forth.