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Asked on December 22, 2021 in Word choice.
What is called a plow?
Roads are then Plowed and salted. Though they may use sand as they are a road, roads are not normally salted.
Only aircraft are generally referred to as ‘de-iced’.
Are you likely to scrape your car windshield?
Black Ice is a thin layer of ice on a road. Icing like water or ice being transparent enough ‘for the color of the road surface’. Are you on ice in a city?
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in Grammar.
The train has been cancelled..
Why is the train service being cancelled?
TAX is deactivated. Why?
This is a casual expression of the same thing and is more frequently used in close proximity either time or physically.
The train is still on schedule. I won’t get on it.
I cannot think of a reasonable scenario where this would be used.
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