Richard J. wrote:
Dave Arquati wrote:

Dave Newt wrote:

James Farrar wrote:


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:20:14 +0000, Dave Newt
wrote:


It's hardly far though - about a 4 minute walk from IC's [1] main
entrance. I used to quite like walking there down the back of
Southside, along the mews, right to the end where you cut
through the archway in the wall, and then turn L-R-L-R down to
where the
Hans Place (?) side of Harrods is.

Another nice walk is via the churchyard at the back of Brompton
Oratory.

I lived in Linstead for a year (lucky me) so that was my favoured
route out, of course.

I'll see your Linstead and raise you Fisher.


[1] I don't work there any more, so I can freely ignore the new
style guide :-)

Ignore Sykes. That's what I do. Save the comma!

To be fair to him, he was always very nice and interested in what
I had to say on the two or three occasions I "officially" met him.
It's the brand implementers who tend to be amongst the most
clueless I find... (and not just there either...)

I've given up caring about the comma... half the people I talk to
outside uni haven't even heard of the place, let alone care about
the comma!


Some of us care deeply about commas, and are trying to work out where
this comma is supposed to go, or not go. How about an explanation for
the uninitiated?

It used to be called Imperial College, and was referred to as IC. The
domain was .ic.ac.uk.

In the rebranding, it was decided that the new name should be Imperial
College London and that the short version should be Imperial. Use of
..ic.ac.uk has been proscribed and the ICT Department had fun trying to
change all the domain servers to .imperial.ac.uk.

However, this creates a false analogy with University College, London,
which has a comma in it and is commonly referred to as UCL.

The Imperial branding people specified that it must not be called ICL
and that a comma must not be employed when writing the full name
Imperial College London. (The use of IC is "to be actively discouraged
too".)

Actually, the full name was actually Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine. This name is still to be retained for legal
purposes in some situations.

To be honest, I suspect the dropping of ST&M was mainly to raise the
profile of the Business School who just spunked 25 mil up Norman Foster
on a new building.