[Talk-GB] Changing place types arbitrarily
Mark Goodge
mark at good-stuff.co.uk
Wed May 25 08:36:38 UTC 2022
On 25/05/2022 09:30, Phillip Barnett wrote:
> ‘Quarter’ is not really an English term. Mostly seems to be overseas
> usage - I associate it with the US
When I lived in Stoke-on-Trent, the city council decided to designate
the area around the theatres and museums as the "Cultural Quarter" in an
attempt to make it sound posher than it really is. It used to be a
standing joke that Stoke doesn't really have a cultural quarter - it
barely has a cultural sixteenth!
Mark
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