Comments on: English town council wants to abolish apostrophes in street-names to end "confusion"

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:58:00 +0000

Or on Canada Avenue at Montana Street, in Pasadena. ’Cause then we’d be neighbors.

And he’d be living in a school bus.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:55:00 +0000

Used to be called “Los Angeles.”

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:50:00 +0000

Neat! Thanks.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:49:00 +0000

When I was in high school (or thereabouts), San Diego tried renaming Market Street after Dr King. Man, you should have heard the squawk. One might have thought Market Street had been Market Street forever (when I think it started out as H Street, situated as it is between G Street and Island Avenue, followed by J Street). Eventually, they decided to name Highway 94 after Dr King himself, since it didn’t have such a nostalgically valuable name.

But one can’t be sure; San Diego seems to value its numbers more than its names when it comes to highways. Angelenos will refer to the Golden State Freeway, the Hollywood Freeway, the Ventura Freeway, and the San Diego Freeway (even the Arroyo Seco Speedway, ha ha) to each other and everyone will know what they’re talking about. But I don’t think the San Diegan has yet lived who speaks of traveling the Jacob Dekema Freeway down to the Kumeyaay Highway, or tries to avoid the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Freeway when heading downtown.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:47:00 +0000

Smiling innocently as she recalls her illicit encounter the previous night with Simon Signmaker’s wife, who herself only recently aided and abetted the murder of Councillor Cameron’s nephew.

Aunt Helga fretted about the state of the Post Office’s finances. Mavis suggested she simply raid the depositors’ accounts for 10%, rather than having an embarrassing financial failure to deal with.

By: Felton / Moderator

Felton / Moderator — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 05:02:00 +0000

Tricksy Grantses!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:15:00 +0000

So it’s Grants’s Tomb?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:14:00 +0000

Or in La Cañada in LA County.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:31:00 +0000

And Mrs. Grant.

(Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?)

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:03:00 +0000

Fortunately he’s unlikely to live on Canada Square, in London.

By: Anarcissie

Anarcissie — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:49:00 +0000

Rational people would have gotten rid of the possessive apostrophes long ago, since, as you say, they don’t stand for anything. However, they would then have to give up being peeved at people who use, or don’t use, apostrophes when they shouldn’t / should. So it will never happen; the satisfaction of being peeved is too great.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:03:00 +0000

There’s an Ontario, California, too, an hour from where he lived in LA.

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:51:00 +0000

It sounds almost exactly like Ѿ۞ᶋ₦

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:46:00 +0000

More THC, vicar? *ugh*

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:45:00 +0000

“I swear, guv, I picked up this Westward Ho but it was purely occidental!”

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:40:00 +0000

Is there a technical term for a city that eats cities? Something akin to “carnivore”?

Cannibalistic polisvore?

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:37:00 +0000

Tonopah? OH TEH NOSE, Area 52!

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:35:00 +0000

You and your apocryphal apsotrophal tales.

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:33:00 +0000

“Kippers for breakfast?” asked Aunt Helga.

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:32:00 +0000

It’s a dumping ground for grant money.

By: jerwin

jerwin — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:47:00 +0000

Disemvoweling is no dishonor, sir. Any fool could have read my words as

“Could you read a novel like that? I don’t think that it would be that enjoyable.

By: James Penrose

James Penrose — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:45:00 +0000

We can switch to Hebrew if you want to go that route.

By: Jardine

Jardine — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:24:00 +0000

London, UK to be precise. Since there’s a London, Ontario, Canada a couple hours from where he grew up.

By: Geraint Morgan

Geraint Morgan — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:25:00 +0000

Postcodes are not used by anyone serious for geocoding. Use national property gazateer instead.

By: Geraint Morgan

Geraint Morgan — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:25:00 +0000

Yes, def wrong.

By: Shashwath T.R.

Shashwath T.R. — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:05:00 +0000

Congratulations on the self-disemvoweling conversation… ;)

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:01:00 +0000

it is the TOMB of GRANT

By: class_enemy

class_enemy — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:35:00 +0000

On the contrary, the more time they spend in addressing issues of absolutely zero impact, the happier most of the population certainly must be.

By: class_enemy

class_enemy — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:34:00 +0000

If one time Beck actually owned it or was in residence there, “Beck’s Square” seems perfectly OK.

Unless you also think that the structure in Riverside Drive Park should be called “Grant Tomb”.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:16:00 +0000

In London there is no rule that says a building actually has to be in the same street as its correct postal address. No 35 X street could well be found somewhere in Y street. And in many other old world towns I would imagine.