Mye badde
The West Covina City Council could ask staff to study whether to rename a strip of Glendora Avenue “Old Town Center,” to help give the shopping area near Lakes Drive more identity. I was so pleased to see the city wasn't planning on “Olde Towne Centre,” but now I wonder if that might change.
I should mention that I've long been annoyed by the cutesy, “old fashioned” addition of an “E” to the end of a word to try and give it more character, as in “Olde Tyme Candy Shoppe” or “Towne Square.” But today I inadvertently encouraged it.
I don't mean to offend anyone. Certainly, for some people, the Es are a way to add character and communicate history and to distinguish an area or store from other locations. But to me, it always seems fake and pretentious. I was so pleased that no one had succumbed to the temptation of naming part of West Covina “Olde Towne Centre” instead of the properly spelled “Old Town Center” – so pleased that I asked one of the people involved in coming up with the name why they had left off the Es. I expected to hear that they didn't like the Es, either. Instead, I heard that they simply hadn't thought of it, and that it was a wonderful idea, and it would be suggested.
Oops. I mean, oopse. The irony is killing me.
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It is very possible however, that with our current council the addition of the extra and quite European 'e' would be lost on them.
Let's hope it gets lost somewhere in City Hall as well...
...wait, that shouldn't be hard.
Posted by: Not a fan | March 18, 2008 8:51 PM