Rumbling noise on start up

[PH14]

Like hell I will.
By the way, spell check says centre bad, center good. 

It depends on where you live.

[VirginiaJim]

Gentlemen, this is a motorcycle forum, NOT a University course.

Since when has that stopped anyone from veering off track?  Tis the nature of the beast.

[maxtog]

Funny thing though about language- I (an American) tend to view English as your (UK) language so any differences are our deviations from the original. But in reality, both versions of the language have been in continuous development right along

Its just that American English fixes British English by getting rid of all those unnecessary extra vowels and by actually using the letter "z" 

[gPink]

Its just that American English fixes British English by getting rid of all those unnecessary extra vowels and by actually using the letter "z" 

So on the island a zx14 is only an x14?

[PH14]

So on the island a zx14 is only an x14?

 

[maxtog]

So on the island a zx14 is only an x14?

  No, in British style, it would be an "sx14".

That, I can visualise... I mean visualize.

[PH14]

So on the island a zx14 is only an x14?

This one?



Or this one?

[B.D.F.]

 

The English (affectionately known as 'Limeys') call the letter 'Z' zed. It really sounds odd the first several thousand times I heard it. Well actually it still sounds odd to me but there ya' have it.

So I have to assume they would verbally call that bike a Zed X 14. ??

It also makes me wonder how they use the two- word specification for letters... you know, A is alpha, B is beta and Z is zebra. What do they call it, zedbra?

Have you ever watched a Limey eat? They hold the utensils all wrong and use the wrong device to pick up the food (often the knife), and often use a fork upside down. Worse than watching a left handed person write I tells ya'.

"I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life.
It makes them taste kinda' funny but it holds them on the knife."

Let us know if we wander off topic Jim. I love this forum!

Brian

So on the island a zx14 is only an x14?

[VirginiaJim]

Its just that American English fixes British English by getting rid of all those unnecessary extra vowels and by actually using the letter "z" 

 

[VirginiaJim]

Let us know if we wander off topic Jim. I love this forum!

Brian

Me too.

[RandyN]

The English (affectionately known as 'Limeys') call the letter 'Z' zed. It really sounds odd the first several thousand times I heard it. Well actually it still sounds odd to me but there ya' have it.

So I have to assume they would verbally call that bike a Zed X 14. ??

It also makes me wonder how they use the two- word specification for letters... you know, A is alpha, B is beta and Z is zebra. What do they call it, zedbra?

Have you ever watched a Limey eat? They hold the utensils all wrong and use the wrong device to pick up the food (often the knife), and often use a fork upside down. Worse than watching a left handed person write I tells ya'.

"I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life.
It makes them taste kinda' funny but it holds them on the knife."

Let us know if we wander off topic Jim. I love this forum!

Brian

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

[Bryn]

So I have to assume they would verbally call that bike a Zed X 14. ??

It also makes me wonder how they use the two- word specification for letters... you know, A is alpha, B is beta and Z is zebra. What do they call it, zedbra?

Let us know if we wander off topic Jim. I love this forum!

Brian

Correct.. ,Zed Ex14  ... Zed Zed R 1200 etc...

Slightly out with the ponetic alphabet though

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whisky
X-ray
YANKEE
Zulu
Sometimes we don't speak the same language 

[gPink]

Correct.. ,Zed Ex14  ... Zed Zed R 1200 etc...
Sometimes we don't speak the same language 

That's......awkward.

[Boomer]

That's......awkward.

Why?
USA - Zee-Eks-14
UK - Zed-Eks-14

Not much difference to my mind, although it is called the ZZR1400 over here.
The double Z is awkward but it only ever occurs with Kawasaki motorcycles and a a certain collection of Texan Beards.

As for the rampant mutilations of the English language, you are not the only ones.
The Canucks, Aussies, Indians, South Africans, Jamaicans, Irish, and a great many others also mutilate and bastardise our language,.....
... but we can take it, we can handle it, because we have our stiff upper lip and a cup of tea. 

Oh Bryn,... it's Zulu by the way. 

[Conrad]

Where do they keep the animals? In a zedoo?   

"Mummy, can we go to the zedoo today and see the zedebras?"

[gPink]

Cajun music would be zedeco.

The midget would be yelling 'zed plane Boss, zed plane!'

[VirginiaJim]

I'm watching this thread very closely...

[Conrad]

Got your glasses on Sparky?   

[B.D.F.]

Now that is a really interesting point Conrad- what DO they call a Zebra, a striped horse? Inquiring minds want to know....? The 'boot' and 'bonnet' was bad enough but the Zebra thing is a real quandary.

Brian

Where do they keep the animals? In a zedoo?   

"Mummy, can we go to the zedoo today and see the zedebras?"

[VirginiaJim]

Got your glasses on Sparky?   

Yes.