Steve Hill

if you like a bit of language nerding, then may I suggest super geek Simon Roper on Youtube? also Gideon on Let Them Talk Tv, who, like me was an EFL teacher.

Yep, except torquere is the infinitive of the Latin verb. The meaning of the root is certainly to twist or turn, but that ending is a functional/grammatical one, not connected with meaning as such. Like "Reliquere"...from which relic/relict/relinquish, etc

Germanic, I think

yep-tho more directly & lately from a Germanic word, I think. "quer" in modern German. Words for turning/ twisting, inc "torc" seem to derive from words related to mod Welsh "troia", hence Troytowns..nowt to do with Greece..prob via Brythonic & Anglo Norman French. "Trendle" in Old/ Middle Eng.

Thanks. Makes sense. Otherwise why build massive eworks with a whopping, permanently accessible entrance....

oh dear...

Do "we" have much recorded evidence for entrance types/morpholgy are they mostly likely to have been wooden constructions-which makes sense?

Oh no! Stay safe. Hope you get through unscathed.

not really the point

a seriously worrying guy

do they still exist, though?

I am quite relaxed now-listening to Free at the Isle of Wight. Have a great eventide

and no unpleasant bending-as Viv Stanshall once said

you want context at this time of night? Ok, fair enough...

Sedimentary, Watson!

Just wld like to put a word in for Free & Thin Lizzy, for no reason whatsoever-except they are often ignored.

Not "classic rock"

there was a lot of great music in the 80s & 90s..but it wasn`t "classic rock"..tho some of it was "rock"

def not rock!

The Sex Pistols were a boy band, btw. Ask Malcolm McLaren-oh, hang on..

er..nothing to do with "elites". what is with this obsession with "elites" FFS.

yeah, but not the point

mmmm

Bowie 70s. Queen 70s. also Tears for Fears. Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys certainly ain`t rock. Neither are Madness, who are great. you are not understanding "classic rock". Stone Roses, INXS, nor RHCP neither.

yeah-but that`s not "classic rock"

Yes-& some really great stuff-it was just different from the 60s & 70s

Yep...ppl always used to "fly" to Egypt or Greece for "answers". Now it`s all Wales. Much as I love Wales. I am guessing u cld trap animals in pits, etc, & breed/domesticate from their young, maybe. Ppl used elephants,etc so maybe. Not my area of experience.

Yes-rather loose..esp re Wales, but the general point abt domesticating/using draught animals doesn`t seem far-fetched to me. Humans have long done that, & it makes practical sense. Yokes etc wld be far more efficient than loads of ppl pulling on ropes. Esp if u built a track. Which breeds is the Q.

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