MOT?

It's the UK annual car inspection. All cars over 3 years old have to undergo this, which includes an emissions test.

Thanks! I assumed that it was some kind of inspection, but I didn't know in which country (UK or US).

We have the same in Sweden but with a slightly different scheme for "young" cars.

/Bengt

Best drop the other shoe, or the lad will continue wondering...

"MOT" == "Ministry of Transport", which used to be the name of the *.gov.uk department supervising the test. Responsibilities were taken over by the Dept of the Environment, so strictly it's now the "DoE test". One of those cultural-memory things.

-- Andrew Stephenson

It's a small animal insect with wings, usually attracted to a light source.

Really? I thought it was spelled moth. Notice the h at the end.

/Bengt

We have the same thing here in the USA but it varies by state. Big open states with no significant pollution problems don't have any testing. Other states do, but it is left to the state to figure out and we usually just call it "emissions testing". Since most states have been doing "safety" inspections for years (lights, horn, tires, etc) we often just lump it under the "yearly inspection" category. The (federal) EPA does tells states that they have to do the emissions testing but the do no do any actual testing... they just approve state by state programs.

Yes, but the h is silent.

But moths are silent as well. We have a WOF for our cars over here - noise dogs make!!

Not silent at all It is a the consonant equivalent of a dyphthong which is two vowels that are sounded together as a unique but related sound as are the o and e in Oedipus.

As if fact were spelled pharm. or as in phlegem which really is spelled that way.

Malcolm Mason