Letters
‘Undertaking’
As an everyday biker and regular reader of Motorcycle Sport and Leisure, I look forward each month to when my copy drops through my letterbox.
Your edition featuring ‘lane hogging’ caught my attention, not so much for the views expressed, but for the use of the word ‘undertake’. However much one might like there to be one word to stand in for the phrase ‘overtake on the inside lane’, I’m afraid there isn’t one.
Undertake means to agree to, or to commit oneself to something, or to promise to do something. No matter which lane you use to go past a slower vehicle, you are nonetheless overtaking them and there are times when this manoeuvre has to be undertaken, when traffic in an outer lane backs up and moves at a slower pace than the one in which you yourself are travelling.
Having got that off my chest, I can go back to enjoying the articles.
Michael Kristian
Good news Michael! Listed as ‘informal’, Collins dictionary now gives undertaking this meaning: “The
