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Bare diver
31-12-2008, 01:40
does anyone know another name for a compass heading
tom00_uk
31-12-2008, 02:39
bearing?
David G
31-12-2008, 10:21
Course to steer?
Keith Littlebury
31-12-2008, 11:52
Colin?
Chris aka divingchef
31-12-2008, 11:55
:D NORTH:D

unless your Jack Sparrow :D


Have a great new year all and wish that your compass takes you where you want to be! :D
Francis James
01-01-2009, 19:16
If it's reated to the wind direction it will be quoted as a Cardinal Point, of which there are 32 on a compass card.
Maria CM
01-01-2009, 20:44
:D NORTH:D

unless your Jack Sparrow :D



Titter....

best wishes,

Maria
Edward
02-01-2009, 07:09
does anyone know another name for a compass heading

That way :)

Edward
GaryC
02-01-2009, 11:30
does anyone know another name for a compass heading

Degrees Magnetic?

or

Degrees Compass (including the fudge for boat compass deviation)

What's the prise for getting this right?
David G
02-01-2009, 16:14
What's the prise for getting this right?

A dictionary? :D :p :D
Chris aka divingchef
02-01-2009, 16:22
A dictionary? :D :p :D

If he cant spell the word he wont find it in the dictionary ;)

Well that used to be my excuse:D :D
Nigel Hewitt
02-01-2009, 16:46
If he cant spell the word he wont find it in the dictionary ;)

Well that used to be my excuse:D :D
I used to get that at school. How do you spell a word? Look in the dictionary was the standard response.

So I'd look and it wasn't there so I was obviously wrong but I guessed that already or they wouldn't have complained. At least computer spell checkers offer you some guesses and that gets me there in most cases.

School... Looking back I can see that I excelled in subjects that never asked for an essay so naturally I preferred them and, as kids do, I dropped the others as soon as I got a chance. Once I stopped having to spell and having teachers that think "can't spell=stupid" it was 6 A-levels and the Maths prize.

Sorry. Off on one there. Probably the lack of apostrophes in the post that did it. I just did school before they invented Dyslexia so I was obviously just not trying hard enough and it still rankles.
(seven spelling errors fixed in this post.)
Maria CM
02-01-2009, 17:14
Ime grate at spelink

best wishes,

Maria
Chris aka divingchef
02-01-2009, 18:25
[QUOTE=Nigel Hewitt] teachers that think "can't spell=stupid"

I just did school before they invented Dyslexia so I was obviously just not trying hard enough and it still rankles.
QUOTE]


Mmmmm, now that does bring back memories:(

Chris
ChristianG
03-01-2009, 02:50
I just did school before they invented Dyslexia so I was obviously just not trying hard enough and it still rankles.
(seven spelling errors fixed in this post.)
Quite frankly, in English you can either spell, or you can't. There are so many exceptions to every "spelling rule" in this language that there may as well not be any rules at all. I ask you, "i before e except after c"? I believe that it takes a particular "brainset" to be able to spell in this language, just as it takes a particular "brainset" to be good at mathematics - which you are and I am, quite decidedly, not.

Against that, if you know your rules of spelling in German you are rarely if ever going to get caught out. Yet, in German you can easily get caught out by gender, I mean who would have thought that Tisch (table) would be masculine rather than neuter given that German has masculine, feminine and neuter genders?

Every language has its own peculiar idiosyncrasies and that quite definitely includes English spell checkers. ;)
Fred
03-01-2009, 07:09
I just did school before they invented Dyslexia

They didn't invent it,they just renamed it.
Before it was known as, THICK or STUPID etc.