http://wordie.org/words/bicycle Comments for the word 'Bicycle' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/bicycle#comments "When the police subsequently raided the Bicycle <a href="/words/Clinic">Clinic</a>, the Fire Department at first blocked them from entering for safety reasons. The building was so <a href="/words/cram">cram</a>med with bicycles and bike parts that a Fire Department rescue <a href="/words/squad">squad</a> had to remove the upper-floor windows and lower the bicycles by rope.<br /><br />That was just the beginning. An additional 200 bikes were seized in Mr. Kenk’s home. Ten landlords around the city reported that their garages had been rented by Mr. Kenk and were bulging with bicycles. As the police gathered the mounds of bikes, they also found cocaine, crack cocaine, about 15 pounds of marijuana and a stolen bronze sculpture of a <a href="/words/centaur">centaur</a> and a snake in battle." <br />-- "In a Cyclist-Friendly City, a Black Hole for Bikes," New York Times online, 8/21/08 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:34:27 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/bicycle#comments http://wordie.org/words/bicycle#comments This everyday word always makes me have to think how to spell it! And I'm a good speller. But everytime I write it, or type it, I am tempted to spell it "bycicle". I have to dissect it as bi+cycle. It's an unusual case where "y" is pronounced as a short "i" (ih). Mon, 05 May 2008 13:36:49 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/bicycle#comments