foolfillment: the blog

I over heard a conversation at tutor group this morning, some pupils using two different names for the same thing. So, I posed a question to twitter this afternoon when I got home.

totally unscientific study, pleae DM me what you think this bridge is called. results later in week. http://bit.ly/1A7qJ

The image I linked to was just one I found through a google search. Perhaps with a little more time I would have found one that didn’t have the answer in the url, but hey ho.

The results came in as I went back out for the S6 leavers’ ceremony. This evening I’ve collated the votes and as I thought people are split.

Interestingly people who went for ‘Forth Bridge’ as the answer were pretty forthright about it. Good on them I say. This was the first big bridge over the Forth, the road bridge came later. The one in the pic is the rail bridge that crosses the Forth, but it is not the Forth Rail Bridge.

Semantics. Pedantry. Two of my favourite things all wrapped up in one nice little teatime voxpop.

Tags: bridge, forth, pedantry, poll, tiwtter

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