http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Guerrilla grammarians with marker pens strike blow against Cambridge Council" en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:57:05 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140937 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:45:28 +0000 chrisfl 140937@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot - I also suspect that it's often the use of Old information, for example Cutlins Road used to pass under the railway line and join up with what is now know as South Gyle Crescent.</p> <p><a href="http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&amp;lat=55.92793&amp;lon=-3.30417&amp;layers=00000000B0FFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF">OS One Inch - 1955-61</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140924 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:38:18 +0000 PS 140924@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Libberton</em></p> <p>Or Lepertown (self-explanatory), or Hlithberetūn (OE), depending on whose theory you subscribe to. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140917 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:07:39 +0000 chdot 140917@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From first link -</p> <p>"<br /> the court stated: "[t]o treat 'false' facts interspersed among actual facts and represented as actual facts as fiction would mean that no one could ever reproduce or copy actual facts without risk of reproducing a false fact and thereby violating a copyright</p> <p>"</p> <p>! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140913 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:50:49 +0000 cb 140913@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Sometimes</em> it's deliberate."</p> <p>I didn't know these were called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street">Trap streets</a>.</p> <p>Or even <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs">Copyright Easter Eggs</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140911 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:48:43 +0000 kaputnik 140911@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Slatefoord, Libberton and Braid's Burn were all correct at one point in time. As was Wardy. Barntoun. Corstorphen. Bogreen. Diddsiton. North Giule. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140906 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:30:11 +0000 chdot 140906@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Sometimes</em> it's deliberate. </p> <p>On maps there have been mis-spellings to see if other map makers were copying. </p> <p>The infamous underpass at Edinburgh Park Station used to be the continuation of the road marked on <em>some</em> maps as Cutlins Road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140905 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:14:32 +0000 cb 140905@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And Colington. I wouldn't loose too much sleep over it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140903 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:12:56 +0000 kaputnik 140903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Wingpig perhaps they're the ones who visit Carlton Hill and Bristol Square? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140902 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:10:24 +0000 wingpig 140902@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can occasionally hear odd music through the wall of the changing room in our building, which I assume to be due to someone having chosen odd music whilst they get a workplace-massage in the room next door.</p> <p>Returning to civic mis-spellings, why do so many purportedly local people insist on introducing a superfluous "m" into Cramond? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140898 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:03:44 +0000 kaputnik 140898@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Our building apparently has a "contemplation room" on my floor, but I've never found it. I'll have to go find somewhere quiet and have a think about where it might be. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140809 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:17:46 +0000 SRD 140809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@nelly @min </p> <p>yes, guess I was assuming it was some sort of 'comp' deal - never heard of workplaces that provide space for therapies that staff buy in, although I suppose it would make sense. </p> <p>in which case, nelly is, of course correct. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140806 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:19:33 +0000 gembo 140806@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Making positive remarks, free or making up the whole? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140805 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:06:15 +0000 Min 140805@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Depends, were they complimentary? :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140801 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:20:00 +0000 SRD 140801@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Errr, aren't both right in that sense? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140800 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 08:49:46 +0000 Nelly 140800@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We have a room at work set aside for the various therapists (sports / head massage etc) that come in.</p> <p>A sign has been laminated -</p> <p>"Complimentary Therapy Room"</p> <p>If I wasn't concerned about repercussions, I might get the magic marker out myself! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140783 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:57:29 +0000 kaputnik 140783@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As I was going to Puerto Bello, I met a fish with seven wives. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140780 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:28:14 +0000 cb 140780@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>See also this post and onwards in that thread:</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9355&amp;page=2#post-114360">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9355&amp;page=2#post-114360</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140734 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:01:50 +0000 chrisfl 140734@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Edinburgh council generally seem to be doing the same thing, slowly dropping punctuation from street signs. </p> <p>Fishwives Causeway, has 2 signs with the name as Fishwives Causeway and one sign as Fishwives' Causeway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140716 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:01:15 +0000 cb 140716@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is just banana's. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140714 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:57:04 +0000 kaputnik 140714@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What about Princes / Prince's / Princess Street then?</p> <p>Early streetmap's (streetmaps) have it down as Prince's Street, but it seemed to be rapidly lost and by the 1830s the accepted spelling was Princes, with the original naming changing from the Prince of Wales to a new derivation that it was for Prince George and Prince Frederick.</p> <p>St Andrew Square and Queen Street were similarly originally styled St. Andrew's and Queen's, respectively.</p> <p>So Princes Street is not the original name, but it's the correct name, as that's what is accepted, and rules of grammar can get tae. It's certainly not Princes' Street! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140708 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:30:10 +0000 Instography 140708@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Youve got to wunder who comes up with they rule's. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12098#post-140706 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:19:17 +0000 chdot 140706@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Guerrilla-grammarians-armed-with-marker-pens-strike-blow-against-Cambridge-City-Councils-apostrophe-ban-20140123060000.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Guerrilla-grammarians-armed-with-marker-pens-strike-blow-against-Cambridge-City-Councils-apostrophe-ban-20140123060000.htm</a> </p>