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I still think the new span of the Bay Bridge should have been named the Emperor Norton Memorial Bridge.
by rosser 7y ago
I still think the new span of the Bay Bridge should have been named the Emperor Norton Memorial Bridge.
- amacbride 7y agoI always think of it as such when crossing it. There’s at least one petition out there to officially name it that, which I think would be awesome.
- tialaramex 7y agoNames are what people call things. If enough people call it the Emperor Norton Bridge then that is its name. So do so. In 1769 London opened a bridge which it had named after an important political figure, William Pitt the Elder. But almost nobody called it "William Pitt Bridge". It was in a district people called "Blackfriars" because there had once been a monastery there, so they called it "Blackfriars Bridge". For the modern replacement they didn't even bother, it mentions Pitt on a plaque somewhere, but from the outset everyone has called it Blackfriars Bridge and so that's its name. It is rude to do this to people, although it will work. But for inanimate objects this is how you change their name.