Timeline for Meaning of 'pedal' in sentence?
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| Aug 23, 2013 at 11:35 | comment | added | Mynamite | @JavaD your link takes the sentence out of context but all the circumstantial evidence points to it being a cycling reference - the yellow jersey, the pack (of cyclists) and pedalling hard in a race. Therefore the original writer has mis-spelled 'peddled'. The alternative is that Mattan and a yellow jersey were in the middle of a pack (of people? wolves? cards?) which was trying very hard to sell something in the blistering heat. Which one makes more sense? | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 10:38 | comment | added | Java D | @TimLymington..have you any proof? I don't think so? | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 10:25 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | @JavaD: the original writer misspelled pedalled (or didn't know the difference). | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 7:36 | comment | added | Java D | no it is not mis-spelled.. here is the sentence sentbase.com/snt/?q=blistering%20heat/amn&corpus=juk | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 1:45 | comment | added | Jack Ryan | unless it's a Freudian slip, with the drugs on the Tour etc. | |
| Aug 22, 2013 at 21:38 | history | answered | Mynamite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |