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Before I subscribed to a bike forum,
I would have guessed Epenthic Schwa was a minor Star Wars character.Make it so!
Er ... wait, wrong franchise.
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Ah, sorry, I didn't realise that that was what you stumbled over. There is no epenthic schwa in the German name. It's exactly the same sequence of consonants as in 'Cockney' and 'Hackney'. The only difference is in stress ('cock' and 'hack' being the stressed syllables). I can well imagine that the lack of a difference in stress within the initial kn- may make it more difficult for certain speakers to produce the initial kn- as opposed to -kn-, e.g. native English speakers, but German speakers are used to this.
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More reporting from the public inquiry:
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I've only just seen that Roy Bailey died last month.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/20/roy-bailey-obituary
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Good spot, Ed.
Very strong, very stable.
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Rural rough sleepers:
He came back one day to find his tent and possessions, including a picture of his late partner, burnt to ashes, apparently on purpose.
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“You get spat at,” he said. “One bloke chucked a tub of salted peanuts over me and lobbed a can at me. What is that about?”
One of the most horrible things is other people attacking homeless people or doing this sort of damage.
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Places which offer employment and things to do which can compete with the quality of employment and things to do available in Central London, such that there's no real need to reguarly travel to the center of the city for anything if you live there.
A very slight change of emphasis (not very different from your version, but I find it important): I wouldn't put it in terms of competition, but in terms of accessibility (as above). If you can buy something like what you want locally, even if perhaps the choice isn't as great as in Central London, but you don't have to go on a Tube or railway journey to get there, then you may choose greater accessibility over greater choice.
I haven't studied the E&C's development (apart from finding the new buildings unsightly, but that's the case pretty much everywhere in London at the moment, and doesn't say anything about the quality of function), but the recent traffic scheme is really terrible--shit done cheaply. They haven't grasped any of the nettles to be grasped there. There used to be a lovely page somewhere about the various visions for reforming the junction design, but I can't find it now. It showed the history very nicely and made it easier to understand the objectives to be achieved there.
Having taken part in a lot of actions that somehow interfere with the flow of traffic, my guess is that they simply didn't expect this and hadn't thought about it beforehand. I don't know for how long they held it up, as the video ends before they let it through, but I imagine it wouldn't have taken much longer for the penny to drop.
It's interesting how they're clearly copying the tactics employed by Extinction Rebellion recently.