I'm naughty, I know, but I just *longed* for the opportunity to drop the name of a certain English village into my conversation to see what effect it caused!
My chance finally came - reporting to my mother-in-law on a trip I'd recently completed to my homeland, I told her "and then I spent the night at Chipping Sodbury"....and I had the road atlas ready to show her!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) --- Jean Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> "Puddletown was originally known as "Piddletown", but with effect from 1 October 1929, following a request from the Post Office, it was changed > officially to its present form. Despite many claims to the contrary the name > change had nothing whatsoever to do with Victorian "sensibilties"; had they > been a strong force then surely a more likely change would have been made to > the Manor of Shitterton at Bere Regis, a few miles to the east of the > village!" http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
