To Inventcoin a Phraseword
June 7th, 2007Here 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.
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June 7th, 2007 at 12:15
Like there’d be an underbridge.
June 7th, 2007 at 16:32
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.
June 7th, 2007 at 16:34
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.
June 7th, 2007 at 19:57
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.