I wonder why some streets attract a definite article?

**Classic Jorge** · 02-23-2015, 01:31 PM

It's quite scary how much of London that you pick up by osmosis stays with you

**Monty91** · 02-23-2015, 01:32 PM

I'm not sure why Royal Mail would care about vanity...

**Ashberto** · 02-23-2015, 01:32 PM

But there is a rogue one on Jeffrey's Street in Kentish Town, named after Elizabeth Jeffreys.

**Sir Charlie of Nicholas** · 02-23-2015, 01:33 PM

**Berni** · 02-23-2015, 01:33 PM

**Sir Charlie of Nicholas** · 02-23-2015, 01:35 PM

**Classic Jorge** · 02-23-2015, 01:35 PM

**Berni** · 02-23-2015, 01:37 PM

**Ashberto** · 02-23-2015, 01:37 PM

The place is practically baconfrei.

**Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler** · 02-23-2015, 01:38 PM

If your address is now Bishops Avenue or wherever then it is fact.

Vanity addressing would apply if a person lived in East Finchley but claimed it to be Highgate or Hampstead.

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I just had to make a minor correction, given that's without google maps it's not bad, is it?

Ooh ya think? You've just made me a very happy Jew!

No apostrophe.

The locals have no education, that's the trouble.

They all piss in the same pot, surely?

The Gambia, isn't it?

Yeah, but that's only because of the Congolese pot shortage

Re: The Gambia, isn't it?

I tried to get a full English breakfast in Golders Green yesterday.

Well actually vanity is not the case if RM have offically told you.

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