Newspaper names
Feb. 8th, 2011 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The BBC News magazine has an article where people list their favourite weird names for newspapers, and many are fine examples of oddity.
I'm wondering what accident of the editorial process caused the inclusion of our local paper The Royston Crow, though.
I'm wondering what accident of the editorial process caused the inclusion of our local paper The Royston Crow, though.
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Date: 2011-02-09 09:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-09 10:09 am (UTC)(One of the names of Corvus Cornix is the Royston Crow. This is somewhat ironic, since the nearest to here that I've actually encountered that species of bird was the grounds of Berlin Zoo - it is long extinct round here. You may call it the Corbie.)