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Ken Wheatley · December 8th 10, 06:48 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 2010-12-07 20:59:32 +0000, Tom Anderson said:

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Ken Wheatley wrote:

On 2010-12-05 21:32:40 +0000, said:

In article ,
(Basil Jet) wrote:

On 2010\12\04 22:01, Neil Williams wrote:
On Dec 4, 3:34 pm, Basil wrote:

No, Stansted Airport has an owner, and they own its spelling, unlike
the English language which we all own.

Stansted Airport is an airport located near a village called Stansted
(Mountfitchet), with that spelling. Arguably the people who live
there get to define what the village is called, and the airport's name
derives from that...

The fact that the airport is not called Stansted Mountfitchet
Airport completely undermines your argument.

The village (small town really) was always called Stansted until the
airport got big enough for the residents to want to distinguish
themselves from it for various reasons. That included, ISTR, renaming
the station.

Well, as I said earlier, the Mountfitchet bit was definitely there in
1611. I've lived near the village since '79

Crumbs. That is as long time.

tom

:-) I did have a parenthised 19 in the latter date but decided it
looked ugly You have shown that it was necessary.

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