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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

a straight stretch of road - what do you call it?

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00where the road is not straight and bends, there's a curve. And where it is straight, what is it?02br
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00What do you call a stretch of road that is straight in American English? Straightaway? Straight? It's "rettilineo" in Italian.02br
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0Straightaway works. So does "straight stretch of road."0-
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0Hi Kooyeen, hi Barb 05002br
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00just out of curiousity: my dictionary "says" only that 'straightaway' is an adverb that means 'immediately' or 'at once', could it be because it's mainly a British English dictionary? 05100 In fact 'rettilineo' is translated just with 'straight' or 'a straight stretch'02br
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00Grazie and Thanks 052010
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0 Thanks.02br
00Cesca, one of my dictionaries says 02br
01b01i00straight: the straight part of a race track (especially British English).02i02b02br
00...but another dictionary says nothing about being British English or not.02br
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00They say "straightaway" is American English though (but one says it is used
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0It's 01i00certainly 02i00the word for the straight bit in a race track.02br
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00The more I thitnk about it, the more I think we say "that straight straetch." I'm trying to think of when I'd use it. 02br
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01i00You know where Miller Road has that straightaway, past the golfcourse? That's where I got my speeding ticket. 
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00You don't have a word for that. Well, it's not vital, after all. 050010id1
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0Not that I've gotten a speeding ticket in almost 20 years, you understand... not on Miller Road, not near the golf course, not anywhere! 050010id4
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10I see, thanks. 12br
11i11b10You don't have a word for that. Well, it's not vital, after all. 15012b12i12br
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10Hi Kooyeen,02br
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00I don't really understand what you said. Could you explain it to
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10I don't really understand what you said. Could you explain it to me, please? I mean what do you mean by 'word for that'? 12br
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10You (Americans) don't have a word to use for that thing I asked about (a straight stretch of road). I say "rettilineo", and Americans say... nothing. They don't have an equival
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0Ah, I get it now. Thank you for explaining that to me, Kooyeen. 05002br
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00Best wishes,02br
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It’s a straight,using “away” after it adds nothing. All the information you need is in the word “straight”.

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