It's Pollokshaws FFS P-O-L-L-O-K-SHAWS

[Dexter St. Clair]

ADD IT TO YOUR ONLINE DICTIONARY Pollokshaws There's No C in Pollokshaws.



See it. Sound it. Spell it Pollokshaws

[Its_a_gamp]

Has someone upset you by any chance?

[Dave]

Buckfast - Breakfast of spelling champions

I thought Pollockshaws was easily understandable.

[Dexter St. Clair]

Buckfast - Breakfast of spelling champions

I thought Pollockshaws was easily understandable.

It's understandable that cud chewing yokels like you cannot spell Glasgow names but it's a Glasgow web site. We''ll fight to the death to preserve every last brick of every dive in Glasgow but spell a district name properly that's a bit too much to ask. Take a bit of pride and learn the language.

[Dave]

Jealousy get you nowhere Dixster

Lets find a word beginning with C to describe you?

[Dexter St. Clair]

Dave, you're a grocer's assistant, you don't know where to put an apostrophe never mind spell.

[Dave]

Dave, you're a grocer's assistant, you don't know where to put an apostrophe never mind spell.

Grocers assistant? Didn't realise they were so well paid. If being good at spelling is all you have in your life Dixster then fine, have it, you and yourself can go sit in the corner and scrub your gums with a dry toothbrush.

[Anorak]

Another couple of howlers for the spelling police………………



In Eglin(g)ton Street !!!!!


Directions for entering Hampden Park from Ai(t)kenhead Road !!!!!

Even some official bodies lack the literacy to know which streets their buildings are in!

[Lucky Poet]

Oh bolloks.

[Charlie Endell]

Another couple of howlers for the spelling police………………



In Eglin(g)ton Street !!!!!

They must have ordered a job lot of these as there's another one just south of the above - I noticed it from the train travelling into work this morning. Perhaps the graffiti artists that haunt the area could do something constructive for once and blank out the second 'g'.

[Toaster]

Another couple of howlers for the spelling police………………



In Eglin(g)ton Street !!!!!


Directions for entering Hampden Park from Ai(t)kenhead Road !!!!!

Even some official bodies lack the literacy to know which streets their buildings are in!

The black and white local directions sign at the end of Aikenhead Road used to point left towards somewhere called Cathacrt.

On topic, I can remember having an argument with someone on a Guardian Comments page, who claimed to have lived in Pollokshaws for 3 years and insisted that it had a c in it. Then again, it was the Guardian...

As a one-time Pollok FC fan, it used to drive me mental seeing footie results listings and the occasional article, continually getting it wrong.

The 'ck' spellings actually appear on the earliest maps, but the 'll' is missing as well back then. So if we're putting the c in we should be taking the 'l's out and sticking a 'u' in too, as the first known spelling seems to be 'Pouock'. William Roy's military survey of Scotland is first to use the Pollock spelling (earlier discussion here about it http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3285&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=195#p146459 ).

[viceroy]

I have often wondered why Polloc Cricket Club is spelled that way even although it is right inside Pollok Country Park. However I found out very recently that the name was chosen to differentiate it from Pollok Football Club which originally also had its ground there, at a location know as Haggs Park. Apparently Sir John Stirling Maxwell allowed the footballers to use some of his land as a pitch on condition that they named their club after the Estate. Obviously the footballers must have been there first, before the cricketers arrived, otherwise we might have had a Polloc Football Club instead!

[hazy]

Toaster we used to order taxis for the Asprin factory in Aikenhead Road .

[Its_a_gamp]

Toaster we used to order taxis for the Asprin factory in Aikenhead Road .

good one

[Dave]

I still think the average fuckwit could figure out that Pollockshaws being typed on a forum relating to Glasgow might realise it would be a reference to Pollokshaws.

It has been proven that most intelligent people only need most the letters in the word and the start and finish letters to decipher what the word said. Please see

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