Interesting Links for 05-05-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Delighted to see the Conservatives do badly in the local elections, and the Greens and Lib Dems do so well.

(tags:politics UK )

2. North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs

(tags:language English sign UK OhForFucksSake )

3. Liz Truss pushing up mortgage rates may have handed the election to Labour

(tags:conservatives mortgages economics labour )

4. Why do lorries hit bridges?

(tags:UK transport bridge accident )

5. New poll finds support for monarchy in Scotland falling rapidly (majority now support an elected head of state)

(tags:monarchy Scotland polls )

Comments

[marymac]

Irish uses it to indicate the long vowel, which does quite substantial things to the meaning and pronunciation of names. And several government departments...

Unfortunately a lot of this stuff gets bought in from the UK, which doesn't use accents at all.