when your Scottish horse gets married...

**OC Richard** · 13th March 15, 03:27 AM

It will need this! Who knew?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Solid-Brass-.../281299631658?

**Ordway** · 13th March 15, 03:51 AM

We have had many on this forum refer to bridle leather with the same spelling. The state of elementary education compounded by auto-correct and anticipatory spelling is not a laughing matter.

**OC Richard** · 13th March 15, 05:31 AM

My wife is a cartographer and for many years she worked for Rand McNally doing maps across the USA, and one thing she would come across all the time were misspelled street names.

This "bridal" thing is one she would encounter often.

Thing is, when a developer builds a housing tract they can name the streets whatever they want. Often they're the typical American things like the names of trees, presidents, states, rivers, and so forth. Other times she would come across quirky things like the tract where the streets were Kirk, Enterprise, Spock, Scotty, and so forth.

Oftentimes if a tract were intended for horse-owners the names would be Silver Spur, Saddlehorn, and... wait for it... Bridal Path.

These misspellings were in fact the actual names, so the mapmakers have to put them on their maps!

**RSHAW** · 13th March 15, 06:19 AM

Briefly, I lived just south of Saratoga Springs NY, home of the Saratoga thoroughbred track, in a new apartment complex with a racetrack themed name. All the streets in the complex had historic track names such as Cheltenham, Aintree and of course my street Kilkenny, except that it was misspelled with an extra "L" This bugged me and I simply spelled it correctly.

**Macman** · 13th March 15, 09:45 AM

Ordway, I agree that it's not really a laughing matter, but OC Richard's post did make me laugh out loud

! I'm sorry, I'm still laughing; "when your Scottish horse gets married . . ." just cracks me up!

**tripod** · 14th March 15, 12:22 PM

Gosh I suppose I can become a grumpy old man with this.
I have noticed over the last few years that the concept of spelling appears to have vanished with 'spell checks'. The amount of times people have got their, there, they're mixed up is beyond count. Another annoyance is the increasing addition of 'ed' to put something in the past tense, lighted as opposed to lit comes to mind. But the best was reading a story where matter had one 't' missing amongst other things, made it a struggle to understand what he was trying to say. You might say it doesn't matter since it was still understandable. Or is that; it doesn't father.

Now im felling betterer.

**Steve Ashton** · 14th March 15, 05:19 PM

What I want to know is - When your Scottish horse gets married, what Tartan does he wear?

Once I have the answer to this perplexing question I will feel bettererer.

**Couper** · 14th March 15, 05:32 PM

...tempted to ask a question of the cellar...about his choice of words...

**Jock Scot** · 14th March 15, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by Steve Ashton

What I want to know is - When your Scottish horse gets married, what Tartan does he wear?

Once I have the answer to this perplexing question I will feel bettererer.

I have just popped out to the stables and asked "Archie" the Highland pony, Steve. I am therefore reliably informed that in the case in question, then the horse wears the tartan of its owner. In the event of the owner not having a tartan then, Black Watch is worn.