Gospel Pass - Abergavenny-Hay on Wye

[Alex Lovell]

Was walking the Gospel Pass yesterday when a Hawk T2 flew into the valley from the south and then gracefully dove down the steep drop at the northern end of the pass before banking right. Looked like great fun.

Does anyone know if its a flowed valled south to north or is it both ways?

Thanks
Alex

[Tankertrashnav]

Dove?

Glad you're enjoying your holiday in the UK

[green granite]

As a matter of interest Tankertrashnav do you use drived or drove as the past tense for to drive?

[beardy]

G G

You compare apples and pears. Dive is usually a regular verb, hence dived; drive is an irregular (and occasionally reflexive) verb hence drove (and drover as well as driver.) Apparently our ex-colonial cousins, whilst evolving their version of our language, do occasionally treat dive as irregular and use dove. They also coined terroristic; as they would say - go figure.

That said it is a wonderful spot to walk and view low flying aircraft.

[diginagain]

Shirley, Ttn would use the expression "was driven"?

[green granite]

You compare apples and pears. Dive is usually a regular verb, hence dived; drive is an irregular (and occasionally reflexive) verb hence drove

I was actually comparing two verbs that end in 've' therefore I'm not comparing apples with pears.

please note the smiley used in both posts.

Seriously though I actually find 'dived' sounds clumsy, a bit like the use of 'lighted' instead of 'lit' but I suspect it depends when you were educated and by whom, my English teacher insisted on his rules, with things such as heave/hove, reeve/rove, roof/rooves, hoof/hooves etc. if you dared to write 'heaved' you got a clip round the ear even though it was used at the time

[500N]

green granite

I think we had the same English teacher !

Rules were made to stick to - at school, even though the general population
used words like your example, "heaved".

And most people wouldn't know the word "hove" anyway !

[beardy]

live (v). lived or should that be love? Ending in ve :applesve and pearsve

Should anyone be really interested try this exciting text:

Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling by David Crystal

Alex,

I do believe that the pass to Capel-y-ffyn is one way, south to north

[goudie]

Only on pprune could a post, sharing the pleasure of seeing a low flying Hawk, become a pedantic lesson on the correctness of the English language, in less the 10 posts.
Wonderful stuff!

[Dan Winterland]

An ISS pass is now mandatory before posting on PPRuNe. Those without should be on AARSE!

[Dan Winterland]

But Navigator's are exempt!

[Bob Viking]

ISS is long gone. Thank God!

[Tankertrashnav]

Blimey - was only a joke and it's almost gone viral!

[Stuff]

Originally Posted by Bob Viking

ISS is long gone. Thank God!

ISS is dead, long live the Tutor-assessed Effective Writing Exercise (TEWE)!

[Ali Qadoo]

English like wot she is wrote

'Ere, no disrespecting ISS, please. One of the proudest moments of my Service career was when I got my final results after ISS. Something along the lines of, 'In gaining a "C", Flt Lt Qadoo has clearly made the minimum effort possible in order to pass the course.'

Now that's what I call fine judgement

[green granite]

Blimey - was only a joke and it's almost gone viral!

So was my reply, but if people don't read the smiley ..................................

[Bob Viking]

Stuff - TEWE

So that's what it stands for?! I almost got away with doing mine but after well over a year they finally tracked me down and made me commit fingers to keyboard!
BV

[Alex Lovell]

Ummm, hijacked!!!!

Thanks for the south - north confirmation in amongst all that beardy!!!