Disturbing street name… I shouldn’t be blogging…
admin August 31st, 2006
Disturbing street name…
I shouldn’t be blogging right now; not only am I at work, with plenty of work-related things to do, but I have personal e-mails that are sitting unanswered. However…
I’m covering our front desk right now (we’re presently between receptionists), and someone gave me some outbound mail. As usual, I gave it a quick “is everything in order?” glance before tossing it lightly into the mail tray.
*ominous music* …and THAT’s when I saw it. Charring Cross Circle. At first I thought someone had mistyped it. So I checked the post office’s Web site. Nope – it’s right.
Now, I think the Brits do pronounce “charing” (as in “Charing Cross Road”) like “charring”. So I expect this is just a (slightly pretentious) effort to make sure people pronounce the street name as intended, since we-all here in the colonies are just too ingerant…um, ignernt…er, well, stupid?…to say it right. But really. “Charring Cross” – doesn’t it sound a bit…well…Klan-ish?
At least it wasn’t “Charred Cross”. That would have REALLY been indefensible!
