Friday, November 16, 2007

Road names, names, names

Lisbeth has been visiting some friends down the road, this afternoon. Not unsurprisingly, one of the topics of conversation was........you've guessed: numbers and street names. They were discussing the formal letter telling the residents on this road that the name has changed from Route de Montmorillon to Rue des Artisans. Lisbeth said that in her letter, it said Route des Artisans, instead of Rue. They checked theirs again and found it said the same.

Out of interest, Lisbeth's friend looked them all up in the new telephone directory because - apparently - this has all the new addresses in it.

I'm sure you won't be surprised to find that it got more complicated, not less. While her friends are in under Rue des Atrisans, the people over the (same) road are in under Route de Montmorillon and Lisbeth isn't either. She is in the book as living in Le Bourg. The phrase for the centre of the village.


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