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[Simon Kirby]

And it's Weaver's Walk.

I though Weaver was someone's name, like as in Monk's Lane. I was wrong though I think, because it's Weavers - as in cloth makers, many of them, but it's still their walk - so Weavers' Walk. That street names don't always have their apostrophe is a consequence of some clerk's sloppy grammar, not some overriding stylistic rule.

[Andy Capp]

I though Weaver was someone's name, like as in Monk's Lane. I was wrong though I think, because it's Weavers - as in cloth makers, many of them, but it's still their walk - so Weavers' Walk. That street names don't always have their apostrophe is a consequence of some clerk's sloppy grammar, not some overriding stylistic rule.

That is besides the point. A clerk leaving it out in error, makes no difference. Its name is its name.

[blackdog]

I though Weaver was someone's name, like as in Monk's Lane. I was wrong though I think, because it's Weavers - as in cloth makers, many of them, but it's still their walk - so Weavers' Walk. That street names don't always have their apostrophe is a consequence of some clerk's sloppy grammar, not some overriding stylistic rule.

Whereas I thought it was Monks' Lane - leading towards the Priory.

[Strafin]

I though Weaver was someone's name, like as in Monk's Lane. I was wrong though I think, because it's Weavers - as in cloth makers, many of them, but it's still their walk - so Weavers' Walk. That street names don't always have their apostrophe is a consequence of some clerk's sloppy grammar, not some overriding stylistic rule.

Incorrect.

[Simon Kirby]

Whereas I thought it was Monks' Lane - leading towards the Priory.

Oh bugger, I thought it was named after General Monk because many of the other roads in the area are named after Civil War characters. Am I wrong about that too?

Is it too late to mention St. John's Road?

[JeffG]

In fact here's a quote taken from you r link Jeff...

The marking as plural of written items that are not words established in English orthography (as in P's and Q's, the late 1950's). (This is considered incorrect by some; see Use in forming certain plurals. The use of the apostrophe to form plurals of proper words, as in apple's, banana's, etc., is universally considered incorrect.)

Yes thanks, I know all about the grocer's apostrophe. What I thought we were discussing was a Walk belonging to a group of weavers. Never mind

What's the next topic?

[Turin Machine]

I do rather get a sense of a lot of people who's favourite apparell is presumably the anorak.

[Strafin]

Yes thanks, I know all about the grocer's apostrophe. What I thought we were discussing was a Walk belonging to a group of weavers. Never mind

What's the next topic?

Does it belong to a group of weavers? Or is it just a walk where there are some weavers, or weavers are permitted to perambulate?

[JeffG]

I do rather get a sense of a lot of people who's favourite apparell is presumably the anorak.

Just wait till we get onto particle physics, and how soon the Higgs Boson will be found...

[Turin Machine]

I prefer the other "flavours" myself, and anyway, who needs mass ?

[Andy Capp]

I prefer the other "flavours" myself, and anyway, who needs mass ?

Practising Catholics.

[Nothing Much]

Can't top Catholics.

But assuming there is a RN chap called Higgs and he needs to transfer another to a second vessel he would set up
Higgs' Bosun's chair. Mass would determine the speed and safety of the transfer.

Also used to lift overweight higher rankin' officers on broad...... (don't bother, just being daft.)
Mass would determine the amount of sideboys used for the operation

I did manage an old A level in English and French. You could probably tell that it never helped much.
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[blackdog]

Oh bugger, I thought it was named after General Monk because many of the other roads in the area are named after Civil War characters. Am I wrong about that too?

I don't think General Monk ever came to Newbury, the many roads in the area named after Civil War characters are for characters who took part in the 1st Battle of Newbury in that area.

Monks' Lane was formerly Monkey Lane - which I suspect may have been a corruption of Monks' Lane. All the land on that side of the Andover Road belonged to Sandleford Priory, so the lane would have been on their land and hence not only led to the priory but also belonged to the monks there. Now I shall have to look it up in Newbury Road by Road to see what Roy Tubb made of it.