"Peter Vos" typed

Now yer bein' churlish.... Edgware ROAD and Liverpool STREET

I think the proclivity for abbr. is a cultural thing. In the US we
abbr. everything. It's not New York City... it's New York.. or The
City. It's not Washington D.C. ... its DC. It's not the United States
of America .... it's the US. We don't watch television, but we love
our TV. We don't abuse prisoners at Guantanamo Bay... we hold em at
Gitmo. etc etc.

Abbreviation is fine if it does not induce ambiguity, or mislead.

I repeat: Edgware ROAD is NOT Edgware and I have had to reassure
concerned friends that I was many miles from any bombs.

Liverpool Street is NOT Liverpool.

Tottenham Court Road is NOT Tottenham. Abbreviate the former as 'TCR'
and I'm happy; abbreviate it as 'Tottenham' and you're LOST!

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

In message , at 16:59:00 on
Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Helen Deborah Vecht
remarked:
Liverpool Street is NOT Liverpool.

But Liverpool Lime Street is! (Keeping on a transport topic).

Tourists at places where trains go to both LS and LLS (and I believe
there was one such pair of trains timed to depart Cambridge at the exact
same time) often do get confused.
--
Roland Perry

In article m,
(Roland Perry) wrote:

In message , at 16:59:00 on
Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Helen Deborah Vecht
remarked:
Liverpool Street is NOT Liverpool.

But Liverpool Lime Street is! (Keeping on a transport topic).

Tourists at places where trains go to both LS and LLS (and I believe
there was one such pair of trains timed to depart Cambridge at the
exact same time) often do get confused.

I think there may still be one such pair left. Most Central trains through
Cambridge now are Stansted to Briminghams. You have to change at Ely for
Liverpool Lime Street.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article m, Roland
Perry writes
But Liverpool Lime Street is! (Keeping on a transport topic).

Tourists at places where trains go to both LS and LLS

"LLS" being London Liverpool Street, I presume?

[I won't get my coat, because it's too hot.]

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