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Mind your language

English cities don’t have quarters – whatever the executives say

And Buckingham Palace doesn’t make the fume-filled streets near Victoria into a ‘Royal Quarter’

2 May 2015

9:00 AM

2 May 2015

9:00 AM

‘No quarter given,’ yelled my husband as he stabbed at a cushion with his stick, spoiling the cavalier effect a little by catching his foot in the loose rug, about which I have told him twice (not the hundred times he likes to claim). He made his inadvertently slapstick attempt at humour because I had reported to him the appearance of a new commercial sign ‘Royal Quarter’ not far from the former Army & Navy Stores in Victoria.

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