h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hiya Smudger, I was just making a start on editing this week's Snippet, but I'm having trouble with this sentence:


"thinking it was one the straps on the two large pallets "

Is there a word missing, perhaps?

Many thanks

Hi Beatrice, Ah! Sorry about that, I forgot that a lot of folk wouldn't know what that was.
A wooden pallet is made up of of thin wood on the top and bottom, and usually has four inch thick wooden blocks in between, they are made for transporting goods with a fork lift and loading them into ware houses and lorries.

The part I mentioned was the thin strap on the top/bottom, as I used two pallets joined together to make the base for the shed to stand on Hope that helps?
Smudger.

So is it

"one of the straps"

or

"on the straps"

"One of the straps" would sound better, and I only hope that folk will know what I mean, it doesn't really matter much as far as the story goes. What do you think?
Smudger.

I think pallets are fairly well understood - "one of" makes it make sense, muchos gracias