[HN Gopher] Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
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       Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
        
       Author : andsoitis
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2026-02-05 14:20 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | jstanley wrote:
       | For some reason I was expecting a large wheel hub.
        
       | b112 wrote:
       | Being it's the Romans, and there are a lot of years of Romans,
       | wouldn't one expect such a hub...
       | 
       | Every Wear?
        
         | scott_w wrote:
         | While I get what you're going for, unfortunately, the
         | pronunciation of Wear means it doesn't work. The correct
         | pronunciation is more like Whee-ah (sounds a little bit like
         | wheel) as opposed to sounding like "where" ;-)
        
           | syspec wrote:
           | Still works, just Aussie
        
             | dkdbejwi383 wrote:
             | The vowel/diphthong in wear (as in wearing a towel, rhymes
             | with "care", "there") and Wear (homophone with weir, rhymes
             | with "steer", "near") are not the same in Australian
             | English.
        
               | syspec wrote:
               | I guess that's why it's called comedy.
        
             | c22 wrote:
             | I was thinking Boston could pull it off.
        
           | graemep wrote:
           | Near enough for a dad joke, and works perfectly visually (a
           | bit like "there are 10 types of people - those who know
           | binary and those who do not"). In fact I find your lack of
           | appreciation of the humour a bit wearing, not to say wear-ed.
        
           | nkrisc wrote:
           | So more like "weir".
        
           | Kye wrote:
           | "Correct" is doing a lot of work there. Dialects are a thing.
           | I have never heard anyone pronounce it like whee-ah. They
           | would get a lot of chuckles here where it's pronounced the
           | same as where.
           | 
           | Whee-ah is a little emphasis away from sounding like a
           | donkey.
        
       | mitthrowaway2 wrote:
       | > OSL measures when minerals such as quartz were last exposed to
       | sunlight. Over time, these minerals build up a tiny store of
       | energy while buried. When stimulated with light or heat in the
       | laboratory, the minerals release this energy as a faint glow,
       | which tells experts how long they have been underground.
       | 
       | Now that's just magic, plain and simple.
        
       | 0x104-238FF wrote:
       | Architecture in ancient cities was subject to nature _in rerum
       | natura._
        
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