There is an apocryphal story about a Hamilton Bridge in Chennai (used to be Madras when this story happened) that was pronounced variously by non-English-speakers as Amton bridge, Umton bridge, etc.
One year, there was a huge drive to have bilingual signs in English and Tamil. The bridge sported brand new signs reading Barber's Bridge in English and Ambtan Bridge in Tamil. The closest Tamil word to the mispronounced English name got retranslated into English to get this beautiful name change. Ambattan (அம்பட்டன்) = Barber On Thu, Sep 10, 2015, 19:45 Venkat Mangudi - Silk <[email protected]> wrote: > Talking about New... There's a road in Piscataway, NJ called Old New > Brunswick Road. I'm almost certain that there is a corresponding New New > Brunswick Road. Guess they just are tired of hunting for new names. :) > On Sep 10, 2015 6:38 PM, "Sean Doyle" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > We, as in Indians, love renaming stuff. Roads, cities, states, and > > just > > > above everything else that may or may not belong to anyone in > particular. > > > Cologne is now Koln. How is this any different? > > > On Sep 10, 2015 11:26 AM, "Ekta Bahl" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > No faculty shortage for a "course in corruption" in India. > > > > > > > When I visit Long Island (part of New York State) I'm always amused when > I > > see the road signs for "New Highway": > > > > > https://www.google.com/maps/place/New+Hwy,+Amityville,+NY+11701/@40.708254,-73.4014755,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e82b3ce1fb74e7:0x114871aa590cfd8c > > I don't know the history - but "New Highway" has been around for a while. > > > > Some times I think - wow - there's no corruption here because no one paid > > for the highway to get named after themselves. Other days I think that > this > > was a mark of 'peak apathy'. But I am amazed that no one has stepped in > to > > give it a name. > > > > [Unless - of course - it was named after someone named 'New' :-)] > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.deccanherald.com/content/500134/national-law-school-plans-offer.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
