From: Knobdoodle on


"Nev.." <idiot(a)mindless.com> wrote:
> Do engines have oil level lights? ...
>
XJ900s do.
2004 YZF600s seem to also:
http://www.bikebandit.com/houseofmotorcycles/2004-yamaha-motorcycle-yzf600rs-yzf600/o/m8995
(Note item 9 "OIL LEVEL GAUGE")

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Clem
(http://xkcd.com/621/)


From: JL on
On Mar 15, 12:40 am, Lars Chance <lars.cha...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> It would behoove you to find out if it's an oil-pressure or oil-level light.
> P'raps you're running too heavy oil (i.e. too high  viscosity index
> number). That can cause trouble.
> --
> Elsie.
> (Behoove would mean "add hooves to ..." right?)

Given you've made the word up I guess it can mean what ever you would
like it to...

Correct word (based on context) below

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/behove?view=uk

JL
From: Lars Chance on
JL wrote:
> On Mar 15, 12:40 am, Lars Chance <lars.cha...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> It would behoove you to find out if it's an oil-pressure or oil-level light.
>> P'raps you're running too heavy oil (i.e. too high viscosity index
>> number). That can cause trouble.

>> (Behoove would mean "add hooves to ..." right?)
>
> Given you've made the word up I guess it can mean what ever you would
> like it to...
>
> Correct word (based on context) below
>
> http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/behove?view=uk
>

Technically *Americans* made it up; I just copied it,
but thanks for the correction.

--
Elsie.
From: F Murtz on
JL wrote:
> On Mar 15, 12:40 am, Lars Chance<lars.cha...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> It would behoove you to find out if it's an oil-pressure or oil-level light.
>> P'raps you're running too heavy oil (i.e. too high viscosity index
>> number). That can cause trouble.
>> --
>> Elsie.
>> (Behoove would mean "add hooves to ..." right?)
>
> Given you've made the word up I guess it can mean what ever you would
> like it to...
>
> Correct word (based on context) below
>
> http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/behove?view=uk
>
> JL
depends where you are from.

oxford compendium.
behove // v.tr. (US behoove //) (prec. by it as subject; foll. by to +
infin.) formal
1 be incumbent on.
2 (usu. with neg.) befit (ill behoves him to protest).
[Old English behofian from behof: see behoof]

Although in an australian group it would be better to speak English not
American,but we still understand them.
From: Nev.. on
Lars Chance wrote:
> JL wrote:
>> On Mar 15, 12:40 am, Lars Chance <lars.cha...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> It would behoove you to find out if it's an oil-pressure or oil-level
>>> light.
>>> P'raps you're running too heavy oil (i.e. too high viscosity index
>>> number). That can cause trouble.
>
>>> (Behoove would mean "add hooves to ..." right?)
>>
>> Given you've made the word up I guess it can mean what ever you would
>> like it to...
>>
>> Correct word (based on context) below
>>
>> http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/behove?view=uk
>>
>
> Technically *Americans* made it up; I just copied it,
> but thanks for the correction.

If the US spelling is different I think it's far more likely that that
american spelling is the original (ie most correct) spelling, and the
English later changed it. As for most English language words, there's
not so much a correct spelling as there is a generally accepted
spelling. Check out the national archives and have a read of some
Australian newspapers from the early 1900s. It's suprising how many
word usages and spellings have changed just in the last 100 years.

Nev..
'08 DL1000K8
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