Re: Road Clogging

Terry Collins {:- (terryc@zip.net.au)
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:36:50 +1000

Jennifer Sayers wrote:
>
>
> Minor quibble: the road through Newtown is King Street, which turns into
> the Princes Highway further south. The Pacific Highway is north of the
> Harbour and goes to Brisbane.
>
> People also often pronounce "Princes" as "Princess", but I assure you
> the highway is named after one or more males (the habitually missing
> apostrophe makes it impossible to tell how many).

I have this strong belief that it was originally the Princess highway, but
was renamed Princes following some significant royal event in the last 30
years
>
> 

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