princess hwy

[Captiva Fan]

Why the hell is everybody calling it the Princess Hwy? Princes and Princess aren't even pronounced the same.

It's the same thing that causes people to incorrectly pronounce the letter 'h' as 'haitch'.
ie. serious lack of a clue.

One thing I'm not sure of though, is whether you are supposed to use the correct punctuation when it's a proper noun? ie. if it was just any old highway that belonged to the prince, you'd write it as the princes' highway; but because it's the name of the road, do you leave the apostrophe off & just write Princes Highway?

[Emre]

Prince's Hwy unless it was named after a few princes.

The Princes Highway was named in honour of Edward (1894-1972) Prince of Wales (who toured Australia for three months in 1920) and was officially proclaimed in 1922. It was then defined as that portion of the main road from Adelaide to Melbourne which extended as far as the Victorian border, but in 1953 it became the name of the main highway from Adelaide to Sydney via Melbourne.

In South Australia since 1941, no geographical name has been officially acceptable in the possessive form - a good general rule but one that does affect the sense of some names previously applied. The removal of the apostrophe from the original name Prince's leaves it in the plural form, and from this some people have naturally but wrongly concluded that the Highway (of which the Coorong was and remains an important section) was named after the two princes who in 1881 travelled along the Coorong route by coach. It was originally intended to extend from Rockhampton to Perth, but over long stretches of the route the name was never used; it was not known at all in Queensland. 'The Prince of Wales briefly succeeded his father King George V in 1936 as Edward VIII, but on his abdication to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson he became the Duke of Windsor.

http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/p/p8.htm

[XAC15T]

Yeah I've seen you there, I chopped you...

[rexxxy]

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