WHILST resort information manager Charmaine Danny is saying that mistakes are to be corrected in the placing and spelling of signposts recently put up by Bournemouth council, perhaps she will explain why local authorities all over the country fail to insert the apostrophe in road name signs.
In Bournemouth, there is no excuse for Yeomans Road and Yeomans Way – instead of the correct spelling Yeoman’s Road and Yeoman’s Way.
Other roads – such as those around what council signs call Queens Park – also lack apostrophes, as do signs to and in Queen’s Park itself.
Presuming it was named after Queen Victoria, or another British queen.
If her excuse is that there is no difference in how the names sound, why not respell Bournemouth as Bornmuth, Poole as Pull, Christchurch as Kristcherch?
Children learn to write and spell from what they see around them. What sort of examples are being set by these ungrammatical, illiterate misspellings?
ERIC HAYMAN
Bradpole Road, Bournemouth
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