On 2017-07-09, Richard Heathfield wrote:
On 09/07/17 09:46, John Dunlop wrote:
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.

I agree that they take up almost no space.

But when it's hammering down with rain and the traffic thunders past
you at 60 mph and your chain has wrapped itself around the spokes of
your rear wheel and you were already running late, one does not have
to venture too far into the realms of fantasy to hypothesise that the
integrity of your latex gloves might just be the last thing on your
mind.

That sort of thing is why I prefer hub gears ...

My British English would probably say 'the chain came off' and 'I put it
back' or 're-threaded' or 'remounted'.

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