Inside, Outside, Near Lane, Far Lane, whatever...

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

 Geoff: 
> > I viewed the central resevation and crash barriers as the filling in
> the sandwich of two slices of carriageway.
> > :-)

Carol:
> I see. It was your own metaphor. Very nice. BTW, I have no idea what a
> carriageway is, carriages having long since fallen out of use, much
> less a "trunk A-class road." You are certain, monsieur, zat zis is
> Eenglish you are speaking?

Geoff"
A carriageway is a lane of a road meaning the actual driving area. The 
word carriageway is regularly used in a more "official' way in reports 
such as TV/radio traffic reports....

"The southbound carriageway of the A1 at Stamford has now been 
re-opened following an earlier accident"

...this would be a fairly typical report on, say, the morning news.


> > Carol, who would call a "ham and salad sandwich" a ham sandwich with
> lettuce and tomato
> > 
> > Geoff:
> > A little clarification is called for.
> > 
> > Are you suggesting that the lettuce and tomato are a side salad? I
> mean a sandwich which contains ham and salad items between the slices
> of bread....
> 
> Carol:
> No, not a side salad. "A ham sandwich with lettuce and tomato" means
> that the lettuce and tomato are inside the sandwich (unless you
> specifically request them "on the side").

Geoff:
Ah. That was my meaning initially.

Carol:
 I'm not sure which other
> salad ingredients you would put on your "ham and salad sandwich."

Geoff:
Probably nothing. I will often have a bowl of salad as a midday or 
evening snack; this would include lettuce, tomato, mushrooms, 
radishes, cucumber, raisins and coleslaw.

Very more-ish.