Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places

Tag: Grammar

  • Gray vs. Grey

    I’ve always had a terrible time remembering how to spell a certain word. It’s the one that describes a mixture of black and white. Should it be gray or grey? In a sense I understood that it depends upon geography. The adoption of simplified spelling in the United States through the efforts of people like…

  • Blank to Blank

    I focused on towns named Welcome in a recent article here on Twelve Mile Circle, with specific attention to a sign outside of one in particular located in North Carolina: Welcome to Welcome. I wondered if other towns could cobble together similar symmetries at their city limits. All I could envision at the time was…