Maybe I haven't lived enough places. But it does
seem that plenty of cities have pub's named The
Town Crier, but very few towns do.

Just a thought.

G DAEB

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FCS wrote:
> Maybe I haven't lived enough places. But it does
> seem that plenty of cities have pub's named The
> Town Crier, but very few towns do.
>
> Just a thought.

O Apostrophe! Where is thy sting?
-- 
John Briggs

FCS wrote:
> Maybe I haven't lived enough places. But it does
> seem that plenty of cities have pub's named The
> Town Crier, but very few towns do.
> 

Leaving the apocatastrophe aside, I find from a quick Google search that 
there are pubs of that name in the towns of Weston-super-Mud, South 
Woodham Ferrers, Monmouth, Chelmsford, Bexhill on Sea, and Exmouth. 
That's before I ran out of patience. What brought that comment on?

Paul Burke

FCS wrote:
> Maybe I haven't lived enough places. But it does
> seem that plenty of cities have pub's named The
> Town Crier, but very few towns do.
>
> Just a thought.

O Apostrophe! Where is thy sting?
-- 
John Briggs

FCS wrote:
> Maybe I haven't lived enough places. But it does
> seem that plenty of cities have pub's named The
> Town Crier, but very few towns do.
> 

Leaving the apocatastrophe aside, I find from a quick Google search that 
there are pubs of that name in the towns of Weston-super-Mud, South 
Woodham Ferrers, Monmouth, Chelmsford, Bexhill on Sea, and Exmouth. 
That's before I ran out of patience. What brought that comment on?

Paul Burke

FCS wrote:
> Maybe I haven't lived enough places. But it does
> seem that plenty of cities have pub's named The
> Town Crier, but very few towns do.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 

The difference between a town and a city (you seem to live in England) is 
currently one of governmental recognition.  Historically, it was related to the 
possession, or not, of a christian cathedral.

In reality of course, if one disregards the issue of 'inner city funding', there 
is no difference between the two.  In certain other languages, there is one word 
for the two things and that seems perfectly reasonable.

I know a town which has a pub called 'The frog and cucumber', yet many / most / 
all other towns do not.  Just a thought.


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Blue Sow

Paul Burke wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>> Maybe I haven't lived enough places. But it does
>> seem that plenty of cities have pub's named The
>> Town Crier, but very few towns do.
>>
>
> Leaving the apocatastrophe aside, I find from a quick Google search
> that there are pubs of that name in the towns of Weston-super-Mud,
> South Woodham Ferrers, Monmouth, Chelmsford, Bexhill on Sea, and
> Exmouth. That's before I ran out of patience. What brought that
> comment on?

A surfeit of trolls?
-- 
John Briggs