A decision from more than 130 years ago changed the way that we refer to places. That doesn't stop people from calling things whatever the hell they want.
Now do Beatties/Beattys/Beatty's Ford in Mecklenburg County. Highway signs marking the road are variable. The answer is likely similar. Different spellings used over time and various mapmakers and so on. The Beatty's Ford road (and other spellings) is a major street/road then highway in the county. I expect you will find similar notes about Cowan(')s Ford, Nation(')s Ford and so on.
Grammar, spelling and punctuation rules no longer exist. This is courtesy of red-faced, arm chair bloggers spouting off opinions as facts to their Jim Jones-esque followers.
I suspect this case is also complicated by the double s: one at the end of Brown and beginning of Summit. Also complicated by us Southerners’ tendency to add an s where there is not one and remove one where there is.
It sounds like there's an S when spoken even if you don't write it, so S FTW.
I've always thought of it as Browns Summit but despite being a grammar and spelling nerd kinda like the ambiguity around this one.
Yes! The difference between how it sounds and how it’s spelled is probably what’s going on here.
Brownz Summit
idk...wtf izit w splng n cptlztn yo?
Now do Beatties/Beattys/Beatty's Ford in Mecklenburg County. Highway signs marking the road are variable. The answer is likely similar. Different spellings used over time and various mapmakers and so on. The Beatty's Ford road (and other spellings) is a major street/road then highway in the county. I expect you will find similar notes about Cowan(')s Ford, Nation(')s Ford and so on.
For a while after I moved to Charlotte, I thought Nations Ford Road referred to a car dealership.
It's always bugged me that there is no apostrophe in "Kings Dominion."
The Cajah's Mountain people specifically said they wanted the possessive for their town name because "Kings Mountain" looked weird.
You must be new here.
Grammar, spelling and punctuation rules no longer exist. This is courtesy of red-faced, arm chair bloggers spouting off opinions as facts to their Jim Jones-esque followers.
It's a thing, ya know?
Ta!
William Kiefer
wE uSeD tO bE a PrOpUr CoUnTrEe
Our government has become a banana republic.
I knew you could do it. Thanks so much for writing this up.
Well, we just drove by there today. Saw the signs for churches and schools with and without the “S.” No apostrophes.
Frank Zappa referred to it as “THE” apostrophe. Our destination, however, was Smith Farms for some fresh strawberries.
Note it wasn’t Smith's but Smith Farms.
I suspect this case is also complicated by the double s: one at the end of Brown and beginning of Summit. Also complicated by us Southerners’ tendency to add an s where there is not one and remove one where there is.
In other words, just another example of how the federal bureaucracy causes more problems than it solves.