Friday, September 26, 2008

Fifty ways to lose your lover: Edinburgh's street names

Rather cute entry on Language Log.

There are actually way over fifty ways to lose your lover in this city's streets. We get the first fifty from the fact that a cursory glance through a street index reveals that all of the following words to be quite common as street classnames in Edinburgh:

Read on, Macduff

Luckily I have a boat to get hitched on and a ship to drink in afterwards so I'm not worried about losing my lover.

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