The Holloway Road, for example. You'd never call it 'Holloway Road', would you?
The Finchley Road. The Sevenoaks Way.
Has anyone ever spoken of 'The Regents Street'? The Piccadilly? The New Bond St?
Boom. Pick the bones out of that one.
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The Holloway Road, for example. You'd never call it 'Holloway Road', would you?
The Finchley Road. The Sevenoaks Way.
Has anyone ever spoken of 'The Regents Street'? The Piccadilly? The New Bond St?
Boom. Pick the bones out of that one.
Imagine saying the France.
One nil to The Arsenal.
The Old Kent Road is the only one I'd say actually is 100pc affixed with the The.
saying our address has changed and that we are now officially on a street on which there are no houses valued less than 5 million.
DO you think that could positively affect the value of our own property? :rubchin:
They consider it a pejorative, see?
Also, you might mean The Gambia. They do look the same though
this.
I know your game - you are a racist.
I do know Ukrainians f**king hate it though
I'm your man.
The strand, however, is just Strand and has the the affixed
Soviet days when it was titled as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - shortened to the Ukraine. The Ukrainian government actually formally requested that the "the" was no longer used in the early 90s. Mind you they probably formally requested that Russia stop trying to invade them so who takes notice of him.
Another weird one is our insistence on saying the Czech Republic when the people there just refer to it as Czech (well Ceska, obviously, now with accents removed)
though on you it makes little difference.
Aldwych and Kingsway lead off north between st clement danes and somerset house.
Son of a cab driver, mate
Literally.
Seems countries just don't dig the The any more
Of course it would affect the perceived value of your property.
It's quite scary how much of London that you pick up by osmosis stays with you
I'm not sure why Royal Mail would care about vanity...
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...p_2721097b.jpg
But there is a rogue one on Jeffrey's Street in Kentish Town, named after Elizabeth Jeffreys. :sherlock:
The place is practically baconfrei.
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.