On walkabout with cellphone camera

[leahbobet]

Things I saw this afternoon while noodling about the city in the muggy, awful heat:


Written on a portico at the Victoria College quad:




The meta-car! If this belongs to a literary theorist, I will laugh my ass off.

Comments

[kafkonia.livejournal.com]

What I love about that plate is that it's the alternate spelling of "license", which makes me wonder if there's somebody else out there with the more common spelling.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

As I've learned the hard way, that one's actually the correct nominal form. "License" is the verb.

This has been an I'm a Copyeditor moment, brought to you by the government and the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. *g*

[kafkonia.livejournal.com]

Must be a Canada-US thing, since I checked on m-w.com before I posted and it listed "license" as a noun with an alternate of "licence." Maybe I should see about a Canuckistani on-line dictionary. (I don't trust the spellings we use at work because we always seem to use variant spellings.)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Trust me, it's like that in CanOx.

I know this because I cannot retain this fact in my head and look it up like once a week when the House is in session. :p