Metro signage in Latin?

[schweitzerdude]

I hope this will be a fun question that I expect one of our British forum members will answer.

There exists (according to wikipedia) a station on a metro line somewhere in the UK, whose station signage is in both English and Latin. Name the metro system and the specific station. I'll check back in a day or two and I'll provide the wikipedia link (no fair doing a search LOL).

 

[pfx]

That would be Wallsend on the Tyne & Weir Metro. Quod erat demonstrandum. Hehe.

 

[schweitzerdude]

pfx is correct (that didn't take long)

Wallsend's name is derived from the fact that it is near the end of Hadrian's Wall, hence the Latin signs.

Here is the wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallsend_Metro_station

 

[Euphod]

Wallsend's name is derived from the fact that it is near the end of Hadrian's Wall, hence the Latin signs.

Here is the wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallsend_Metro_station

Oh, LATIN....I thought you were asking for signs in Spanish...

 

[rjhowie]

Might be digressing but there again Latin is a dead language anyway!

Up here in the northern part of the Kingdom we now have this rather pointless nonsense of adding stations names in English and Gaelic. Considering less than 50,000 out of 5 million Scots use it or are even bothered tointerested in it it is a pointless waste of money. Even more so when not just on mainline but suburban stations.

I have no problem with support for it as a minor laguage (very hard to learn) but it was never the language of the whole country and still declining so why alter station name boards? It panders to some emotional or semi-political negativeness as far as I am concerned. When you say this some of my emotional Brigadoon fellow Scots get humphy as if criticising anything to do with the country is a gross crime.

 

[pfx]

Surely by adding the names in Gaelic, this stimulates interest in the language, regardless of the number of speakers? Irish Gaeilge is very much alive and on the up and those blaggard Brigadoon types in Holyrood are trying to replicate this.

Personally, I find it is very interesting to see place names in Gaelic if only for the etymology of the words. While perhaps not appropriate in all areas, there is certainly a place for bilingual station signs. Stangely enough, Glasgow had the largest Gaelic speaking community for many years so perhaps it's not so odd that Ghlaschu station names appear in Gaelic?

 

[NikkiA]

When you say this some of my emotional Brigadoon fellow Scots get humphy as if criticising anything to do with the country is a gross crime.

Just demand that they sign the stations in Pictish, Scots and Norn too, for real laughs, throw in 'British' too, and see how many refuse to believe that a) 'British' is a language, and b) that it was ever spoken in scotland. (Warning: suggesting 'British' may get you lynched, depending on how 'true scottish' you appear to be.)

 

[teddytoot]

I think our nameboards here in Wessex will look crowded with Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, Old English and modern English on them. Oh, and throw in txtspk as well!

 

[pfx]

LOL... Don't forget emoticons too!

 

[robd]

Wallsend's name is derived from the fact that it is near the end of Hadrian's Wall, hence the Latin signs.

Here is the wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallsend_Metro_station

Bizarrely, the 'No Smoking' sign has been written in Latin also.

Was tobacco used in Roman Britain? Hmmm.