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Old July 9th 17, 09:46 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,alt.usage.english
John Dunlop[_2_]
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Joy Beeson:

I'm tempted to cross-post this to alt.usage.english -- I dithered so
over whether to say "unshipped" "shipped" or "re-shipped". The
incident was unshipping, but it was shipping that got my fingers
dirty.


You could carry a pair of latex gloves for those on-the-road repairs.
They take up almost no space, and if you're careful they're reusable
dozens of times.

On an international forum, I suspect that my best bet would be to
get wordy and say "I had to put my chain back on the chainwheel".


"Unshipped" would be understood in BrE too, but I'd be more likely to
simply say "my chain came off".

The more unlikely term is "chainwheel". I'd say that's pretty rare in
BrE, foreign-sounding even. It's usually "chainring" for the cogs at the
front, and for those at the rear, "sprocket" for individual ones and
"cassette" for the whole assemblage, or more colloquially "block".

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John
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