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[Hover Fly]

…and that is only the beginning. The wrong flag may well have been a rush-the-graphic-to-screen error. Two ingrained errors which I find particularly annoying at the moment are:

• The use of 'epicentre' to mean 'dead centre'. The epicentre is the epicentre precisely because it is NOT the centre. The absolute centre is the dead centre.

Is the dead centre not properly called the cemetery?

 

[Hover Fly]

And another thing, before I retired I drove a boat on Windermere, if I needed to differentiate between Wynander’s mere and the town formerly known as Birthwaite, I would use ...lake or ...town as appropriate.

 

[MontyVeda]

And another thing, before I retired I drove a boat on Windermere, if I needed to differentiate between Wynander’s mere and the town formerly known as Birthwaite, I would use ...lake or ...town as appropriate.

I don't think there's any real need to differentiate... I've been to Windermere to go windsurfing, and I've been to Windermere to go shopping. Only the irrepressible pedant/complete idiot would raise an issue

 

[oldworld]

If memory serves it was Leonid Shebarshim, head of the KGB at the time. He described the Beeb as "The Red Service" because of their left-wing bias.

You'd think the head of state security for the USSR would know a thing or two about lefties.

That, or it's a not so subtle remark by a left wing member of the KGB trying to discredit the right wing BBC. Cunning these Russians!.

 

[Hover Fly]

I don't think there's any real need to differentiate... I've been to Windermere to go windsurfing, and I've been to Windermere to go shopping. Only the irrepressible pedant/complete idiot would raise an issue

You’ve never had to direct a foreign tourist to the right bus.

 

[Notafettler]

You’ve never had to direct a foreign tourist to the right bus.

Why would you send them to the right bus?

 

[Notafettler]

And then the policy of Northern Ireland under a Republican Tricolour!!

Now I wonder if this is the result of ignorance to other parts of the UK or what appears to me the BBC policy of employing quota personnel who may not have a knowledge of the UK.

Or support for a "United Ireland "?

 

[winjim]

I don't think there's any real need to differentiate... I've been to Windermere to go windsurfing, and I've been to Windermere to go shopping. Only the irrepressible pedant/complete idiot would raise an issue

Notice how you've put in two layers of context. Anyway, I really think you need to take it up with the Lake District National Park Authority's webmaster...

 

[winjim]

Also... people who say Windermere lake isn't a lake, it's a mere, because it's named Windermere... well, Windermere town isn't a mere, is it? Yet it's named the same.

 

[MontyVeda]

The town is named after the mere*. What's so hard to understand?

*synonyms for mere: lake, tarn, pond, etc...

 

[winjim]

The town is named after the mere*. What's so hard to understand?

*synonyms for mere: lake, tarn, pond, etc...

Yes, the town is named after the lake. The town is not a lake.

 

[MontyVeda]

Notice how you've put in two layers of context. Anyway, I really think you need to take it up with the Lake District National Park Authority's webmaster...

If they come on here and post a comment, I'll happily advise better wording for their location of Ambleside. They might even ask me to look at their page for Lake Coniston Water too, or Mount Scafell Pike, or heaven forbid, Torpenhow Hill

 

[winjim]

If they come on here and post a comment, I'll happily advise better wording for their location of Ambleside. They might even ask me to look at their page for Lake Coniston Water too, or Mount Scafell Pike, or heaven forbid, Torpenhow Hill

To be fair, the quote I posted was referring to Windermere lake, with a small 'l', not Lake Windermere with a capital, so in all honesty I think they're fine.

englishlakes.co.uk not so much

 

[Moon bunny]

Lake Coniston Water, which was plain Coniston Lake at the end of the 19th century, was previously Thurstonmere, then the tourist industry renamed it, first after the town, then Water sounds more romantic than Lake, just as Rydal water was formerly Routhmere, which sounds a bit, well, er, rough.

 

[Rusty Nails]

The town is named after the mere*. What's so hard to understand?

*synonyms for mere: lake, tarn, pond, etc...

What 's the fuss. They're merely a lake and a town.