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"Recliner" wrote in news:ru-
:

But the ExCel complex would be renamed if someone else took it over,
unlike Custom House.

*Could* be renamed, I think. At least it's not a sponsored name, which is
much more susceptible to change.

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Arthur Figgis wrote in
:

Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
06:35:07 on Thu, 23 Jul 2009, "


And don't forget Centrale in Croydon.

What's that named after?

The Centrale shopping centre. Sorry, "shopping and lifestyle
destination" http://www.centrale.co.uk

Tram information systems pronounce it as in Amsterdam, but buses seem to
say it as in Milton Keynes.

How do they say it in Milton Keynes?

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On Jul 23, 7:23 pm, James Farrar wrote:
Arthur Figgis wrote :

Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
06:35:07 on Thu, 23 Jul 2009, "

And don't forget Centrale in Croydon.

What's that named after?

The Centrale shopping centre. Sorry, "shopping and lifestyle
destination"http://www.centrale.co.uk

Tram information systems pronounce it as in Amsterdam, but buses seem to
say it as in Milton Keynes.

How do they say it in Milton Keynes?

And I was assuming it was meant to be Italian - Chentralay

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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Basil Jet wrote:

Several stations are named after pubs: IIRC the Angel pub at Angel is
not the original, which is gone.

Wasn't that a cake shop rather than a pub? Oh, i see it was a pub before
that.

Anyway, everyones missed the most obvious example - Heathrow Airport,
which has not one but four stations named after it!

Not LU or in London, but Denham Golf Club always strikes me as a funny
case of this.

tom

--
Oh, and sometimes in order to survive you have to drink the irradiated
water from an old toilet. -- Jon, on Fallout

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"James Farrar" wrote in message
. 1.4...
How do they say it in Milton Keynes?

Just plain central. As opposed to centraal which is how the Dutch refer to
the main station in Amsterdam and seemingly how the tram announcers in
Croydon pronounce it.

However if you're trying to be a smart arse, I'm sure the the residents of
Milton Keynes don't routinely talk about a shopping centre in Croydon.

--
David

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In message
, at
09:22:58 on Thu, 23 Jul 2009, "
remarked:
The Customs House still exists I presume (just like the Royal Exchange I
was in yesterday, but re-purposed). The Custom House is much less likely
to disappear than ExCel is to be turned into something completely
different with a new name, after people give up trying to run trade
shows in a falling consumer market.

But the ExCel site could still physically exist, even if it was used
for something else. Just like the Custom House. What's the
difference? Why shouldn't the ExCel lend its name to the station and
the area, just like the Custom House did before it?

Mainly because it's much less likely to retain its name if turned into
housing, a hotel, business units or whatever.
--
Roland Perry

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"James Farrar" wrote in message
. 1.4...

How do they say it in Milton Keynes?

Bletch-lay.

Ian

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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:38:56 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Basil Jet wrote:

Several stations are named after pubs: IIRC the Angel pub at Angel is
not the original, which is gone.

Wasn't that a cake shop rather than a pub? Oh, i see it was a pub before
that.

Anyway, everyones missed the most obvious example - Heathrow Airport,
which has not one but four stations named after it!

Heathrow was a village on Hounslow Heath, which gave its name to the
airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:He...War_II_Map.jpg

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On 23 Jul 2009 18:23:26 GMT, James Farrar
wrote:


How do they say it in Milton Keynes?

"It"

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In message , at 15:27:44 on
Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Christopher A. Lee remarked:

Anyway, everyones missed the most obvious example - Heathrow Airport,

cough except I ruled out airports in my original posting.
--
Roland Perry