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Offline exigo

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #105 on: August 14, 2019, 11:46:16 AM »
Might get there early Saturday and have a walk round the ground.

Was thinking the same. Even coming up on the 10:23 out of Euston for exactly that reason.

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #106 on: August 17, 2019, 10:49:08 PM »
Is this missing an apostrophe ?



Offline KRS

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #107 on: August 18, 2019, 03:19:27 AM »
May be an apostrophe after the “s”?

Offline Si

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #108 on: August 18, 2019, 09:11:49 AM »

U.F.O seen over Villa Park. Took these seconds apart yesterday. I have no idea what the Orange blob is.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #109 on: August 18, 2019, 09:34:23 AM »
Looks like the Trump blimp to me. Also is the i missing in pride?

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #110 on: August 18, 2019, 09:45:53 AM »
Looks like the Trump blimp to me. Also is the i missing in pride?

The 'i' is represented by the claw marks.

Offline four fornicholl

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #111 on: August 18, 2019, 09:48:55 AM »
Quavers?

Offline Virgil Caine

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #112 on: August 18, 2019, 10:15:20 AM »
I thought the signage was awesome and well done to whoever thought of the concept. Just an OCD niggle from me, on the inside of the ground can the DE Stand be finished- the top balcony frontage finishes about 60% along- perhaps it is to stop a restricted view for the away supporters but for years it has looked incomplete and unfinished.
 

Offline eamonn

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #113 on: August 18, 2019, 11:16:32 AM »

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #114 on: August 18, 2019, 11:47:51 AM »
Welcome to La Park


upload pix

Offline CJ

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #115 on: August 18, 2019, 11:54:52 AM »
Maybe it's the orange dot - haven't seen it for ages

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #116 on: August 18, 2019, 12:56:59 PM »
Is this missing an apostrophe ?


It is very common for companies and brand names to remove apostrophes from brand names*. It is also common for us to add a possessive ('s) that doesn't exist.** This annoys the purists but you can't tell a company how to write its name. I'd say it's not "McGregor's" suite/bar/function room, it's "McGregors" because that is how they have chosen to name it.

* Barclay's became Barclays, Waterstone's became Waterstones, and so on.

** We called Safeway "Safeway's" before it became, erm, ,"Morrisons". F.W Woolworth became both "Woolworth's" and "Woolworths", and of course you have "Tesco" which is colloquially referred to as "Tesco's", not to be confused with "the Tescos" who know who they am.

Interestingly, the home of golf is "St Andrews" whereas the home of the unwashed is "St Andrew's".


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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #117 on: August 18, 2019, 02:15:16 PM »
I recall a few years back, Birmingham City Council were talking about removing all apostrophes from road signs.


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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #118 on: August 18, 2019, 06:58:01 PM »
That sounds like an excellent use of resources.

Offline eamonn

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Re: Stadium Signage
« Reply #119 on: August 18, 2019, 07:59:37 PM »
Maybe they were worried that BE was moving back to Brum and he meant business.

 


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