Coming up on Dead Hill Road

[muckefuck]

Coming back on the drive last night, we saw a lighted display announcing the closure of the Bryn Mawr exit. Only on the sign the name of the street was spelled "BRYN MARW". Now some of you (i.e. anyone unfortunate enough to be within earshot of me when the subject's come up before) know that "Bryn Mawr" is a Welsh name meaning "big" (mawr) "hill" (bryn). As it turns out, marw is a Welsh word as well, one meaning "dead".

Comments

[embryomystic.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty funny (though stupid) typo. This does just happen to be one of those things that I would get, because I've investigated Celtic cognates a bit, and that's an easy one.