The Badly Punctuated Street Signs Of London

[editor]

I enjoyed this article on the Londonist. Who'd ever heard of Tweezers Alley before?!

The Badly Punctuated Street Signs Of London

London streets that just can't agree on how to style themselves

londonist.com

 

[Silas Loom]

Huge respect to the gaffer tape ninja pedant.

 

[A380]

Huge respect to the gaffer tape ninja pedant.

It’s Pickman's model isn’t it?

 

[Pickman's model]

It’s Pickman's model isn’t it?

not i. more up your street, this sort of attention seeking virtue signalling pedantry

 

[A380]

not i. more up your street, this sort of attention seeking virtue signalling pedantry

It is, and will always be, Strand. Not The Strand.

 

[Pickman's model]

It is, and will always be, Strand. Not The Strand.

you're never alone with a strand

 

[WouldBe]

you're never alone with a strand

Threads are better.

 

[Pickman's model]

Threads are better.

But bleaker

 

[PTK]

 

[RoyReed]

 

[mojo pixy]

Gray's Inn Rd and Lamb's Conduit St should have apostrophes, Theobalds Rd not. Plus IIRC Theobalds Rd is meant to be pronounced 'Tibbalds'.

I used to work in the area, so I can't reference these assertions except that it's what I recall being told by a (local) bloke in a pub one evening

(btw I think the particular pub is no longer a pub, this was 30-odd years ago...)

 

[Silas Loom]

Never, ever, heard Tibbalds. Worked in EC1 for many years and lived in N1 for a while, accomplished at saying marlebun and hoeburn with a straight face.

 

[hash tag]

So a thread being pedantic about signs refers to street signs yet the second sign refers to a road