When you read a headline, as there is on the BBC's website in the south-east today, that says: "Staines name-change moves forward", you think you can guess what the story is about.
Ah yes, you'll nod to yourself knowingly, they've finally decided they can do without all the bad jokes and innuendo coming from such a name and they're going to change it to Runnymedesville or something.
But no!
Reading beyond the headline into the article we find that the name change proposed is to make it "Staines-upon-Thames".
Well, that's better, isn't it!
Who am I to cast aspersions? Nobody.
So I say, good luck to the councillors and the people of Staines, and I hope the name change serves them well; I cast no "stubborn dirty mark" on their character.
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