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Here are, I swear, the actual, genuine screens telling commuters what trains are arriving at distant platforms at Manchester Oxford Road railway station. See if you can spot the unnecessary portmanteau word.

Overbridge

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4 Responses to “To Inventcoin a Phraseword”

  1. Gravatar Friz Says:

    Like there’d be an underbridge.


  2. Gravatar Mark Says:

    I guess “overbridge” is intended to imply that it’s a raised bridge intended to get you over an obstacle, rather than one on the same level intended to et you across a gap.

    Because, you know, otherwise people would be walking up and down the platforms looking for the one that just goes straight across and has to be replaced every time a train smashes through it.


  3. Gravatar Andrew Says:

    Yeah.

    Call me old fashioned, but I’m firmly of the opinion that you will always cause less confusion if you use words that you didn’t make up.


  4. Gravatar Adam Says:

    Although i know better - i would like to malevolently point out that there could also be a missing apostrophe - and consequently bad grammar in the same picture.


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