Learners

• Poking up from the top of some cars, larger than a taxi light though not so large as a Pizza ad, is a single Hebrew letter. The lamed looks a bit like a short capital L with a long tail. Indeed, the lamed developed into the L, but it is sheer chance that the words for "learner" in Hebrew and English start with the same sound.
• Lamed being the first letter of the Hebrew word for learn (lomaid), the sign indicates a student driver.
• I first saw L for learner in Britain. There I think a C for continental would also be good, to let everyone know the driver was used to being on the other side of the road.

Copoyright 2006 Jane S. Fox