doublets / langue / traffic

[Carol]

> Geoff:
> Perhaps I can sum it up most concisely by saying that, to a UK
driver, the inside lane is the slow lane and the outside lane is the
fast lane which hopefully gets round the problem of those strange
people who still persist on driving on the right-hand side.
> :-)

Carol:
But here, the inside lane (closest to oncoming traffic) is the fast
lane and the outside lane (closest to the shoulder) is the slow lane.
I feel as if I'm in Oz or Wonderland or a land of mirrors--someplace
where everything is upsidedown and backwards. :-)

Carol, whose latest editing project by the woman from Scotland turns
out not to be a novel at all but a New Age how-to manual on becoming a
psychic and channeling spiritual forces!