[quote]Originally posted by lighthead2toe:
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the Sherbourne (sic) bridge and gaze for a while at the valley below with it's majestic array of colors in full bloom.Ron Jones.
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Ahem Ahem is there nobody over here able to spell the name of my town of birth correctly??
On this side of the border the worthy early settlers of Massachusetts started the lamentable habit for much misspelling amongst citizens of the United States founding a namesake town near Boston but then spoilt the tribute by omitting the final "e".
others then omitted the second "i" in aluminium and the "u" from countless words except our,your,hour etc.
To be fair because my native county of Dorset has a river Bourne that flows into the English Channel at Bournemouth a great number of English people insert the extraneous "u" but that should not excuse those in Toronto.
I have a video camera shot of Sherbourne Street in Toronto but was not previously aware that there is a bridge so misnamed there,so I was curious to see if there is a picture of it on the internet A quick google image search for "Sherborne Bridge" only brings up a book
which is not about a bridge at all but as the caption says
"THE BRIDGE tells the story of the International College, Sherborne School, which was established in 1977 to be "the bridge between non-British education and the best of British Independent Education". The contributors, who include most of those who helped create and develop the College to its present pre-eminent position, give an insight into the secrets of the success of this unique educational institution.
John Fowles
this college is at the foot of a hill very close to where I lived from 1982 to 2000.Half way up this hill a new house was built and named "Swazi House" where the future King of Swaziland lived whilst a young man at the college
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mswati_III some intriguing detail to flesh out my posting a bit:-
"Mswati III (born Makhosetive on April 19, 1968) is the king of Swaziland. He succeeded his late father, Sobhuza II, in 1986."
and at the time he was in Sherborne I now find he was the King already as there was a "regency"
"When his father died of pneumonia in 1982, the royal council chose the 14-year-old prince Makhosetwe to be the next king. For the next four years two female relatives served as regent, Queen Dzeliwe Shongwe (1982–1983) and Queen Ntombi Thwala (1983–1986) while he continued with his education, attending the English Sherborne School."
Today he is Africa's last absolute monarch. He rules by decree
Mswati's rule has been criticised for ignoring the growing problems of his subjects while lavishly spending his nation's wealth on his own personal comfort, including buying a fleet of royal limousines, a luxury jet that cost a quarter of the nation's annual budget, and building and renovating palaces to house his many wives. He has also restricted civil and media freedom of speech. He placed all unmarried women under the chastity rite of "umchwasho" between 9 September 2001 and 19 August 2005 in an attempt to curb the spread of HIV and AIDS.
"The King currently has eleven wives and three official fiancées"
Sounds like an idyllic place for o(u)r Charwoman but beware:-
"According to tradition, he can only marry his fiancées after they have fallen pregnant"
so that's all right then!!
John Fowles
When I walk the hill so high
Around the town where I was born
New York seems so far away
Though I was there just yesterday
[ November 27, 2005, 20:44: Message edited by: johnfowles ]