Literacy in the Landscape

[enitharmon]

IT 'literacy' is fine, then. But not, I suppose, the other sort.



I'm rather touched by this one. The writer has, I think, gone to some lengths to get 'owing to' right. But oh dear - Butt me no Butt's!

To be fair, the writer has also got this right in the body of the text but once the stable door is open...

I also like the pedantic way the writer has given St a full stop (not in normal British usage) and given bus an apostrophe (rather quaint).

[What do you mean, the idea of closing St Mary's Butts is funny? I don't understand. 'Butts' was the name given to an area of open space used for archery practice and the road - which is very wide as it was laid out for trams - is named after the butts that once stood there.]

Comments

[tvor.livejournal.com]

I wondered about the apostrophe before "bus" but i suppose it's from "autobus" or omnibus or something. Very old fashioned. Too bad they don't proofread the whole thing

[swanofkennet.livejournal.com]

It's from 'omnibus'. In the 1930s a politician could talk of 'The man on the Clapham omnibus' as the average person, but it's never been other than quaint in my lifetime.

Although I'm old enough to have learned Latin, and of course

CAESAR SIC IN OMNIBUS BRUTUS SIC INTRAM

(as well as CAESAR ADSUM IAM FORTE BRUTUS ADERAM)

[tvor.livejournal.com]

I am old enough to have learned it too but i forget most of it lol

[loopy1.livejournal.com]

I thought of you today when the coffee shop we were in offered "Tosted Teacakes"! But I was too self-conscious to get my phone camera out to take a photo, since it was inside.