Kooyeen  +  375022 Mon, 04 Jun 07 07:17 PM Hi, where the road is not straight and bends, there's a curve. And where it is straight, what is it? What do you call a stretch of road that is straight in American English? Straightaway? Straight? It's "rettilineo" in Italian. Thank you Kooyeen Joined on Thu, Dec 22 2005 Italy Senior Member 4,969 Parental Advisory / Explicit Posts American English

	Grammar Geek  +  375057 Mon, 04 Jun 07 08:29 PM Straightaway works. So does "straight stretch of road." Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,655 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	Francesca  +  375061 Mon, 04 Jun 07 08:36 PM Hi Kooyeen, hi Barb just out of curiousity: my dictionary "says" only that 'straightaway' is an adverb that means 'immediately' or 'at once', could it be because it's mainly a British English dictionary? In fact 'rettilineo' is translated just with 'straight' or 'a straight stretch' Grazie and Thanks Francesca Joined on Tue, Oct 11 2005 Contributing Member 1,786 Verbs, Adverbs, British English

	Kooyeen  +  375082 Mon, 04 Jun 07 10:02 PM Thanks. Cesca, one of my dictionaries says straight: the straight part of a race track (especially British English). ...but another dictionary says nothing about being British English or not. They say "straightaway" is American English though (but one says it is used for race tracks, so I was not sure it was ok for common roads too) Kooyeen American English, British English

	Grammar Geek  +  375105 Mon, 04 Jun 07 11:01 PM It's certainly the word for the straight bit in a race track. The more I thitnk about it, the more I think we say "that straight straetch." I'm trying to think of when I'd use it. You know where Miller Road has that straightaway, past the golfcourse? That's where I got my speeding ticket. But I think I'd proababy be more likely to say "that straight stretch past the golf course on Miller Road." Grammar Geek

	Kooyeen  +  375378 Tue, 05 Jun 07 04:01 PM I see, thanks. You don't have a word for that. Well, it's not vital, after all. Kooyeen

	Grammar Geek  +  375382 Tue, 05 Jun 07 04:08 PM Not that I've gotten a speeding ticket in almost 20 years, you understand... not on Miller Road, not near the golf course, not anywhere! Grammar Geek

	Peaceblinkfriend  +  375396 Tue, 05 Jun 07 04:26 PM  Kooyeen wrote: I see, thanks. You don't have a word for that. Well, it's not vital, after all. Hi Kooyeen, I don't really understand what you said. Could you explain it to me, please? I mean what do you mean by 'word for that'?     Thank you. Best wishes, PBF Peaceblinkfriend Joined on Wed, May 9 2007 Senior Member 2,130 Success - it is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

	Kooyeen  +  375556 Wed, 06 Jun 07 12:05 AM I don't really understand what you said. Could you explain it to me, please? I mean what do you mean by 'word for that'?     You (Americans) don't have a word to use for that thing I asked about (a straight stretch of road). I say "rettilineo", and Americans say... nothing. They don't have an equivalent word. That's what I meant Kooyeen