Could you help me? I spent my holiday on the seaside or at the seaside?

At the seaside, at the park, at the beach, at the house.

On the house (meaning you are standing on the roof).

thanks a lot

By the way: “this house in the street” or “this house on the street”?

By the way: “this house in the street” or “this house on the street”?

On the street—unless it’s moving.

In Britain we normally say “in the street”, but if we want to stress that an activity occurs on a public highway as opposed to indoors or somewhere else, we can say “on the street”.  Thus:

I live at the first house in the street.
I met her in the street.
Much of the drug dealing takes place on the street.
He always parks his car on the street.

I live at the first house in the street.

Never encountered this difference between British and US usage. I also think you should spell it “streete.”

saparris - 15 October 2009 04:19 PM

I also think you should spell it “streete.”

That reminds me of a curious former usage concerning street names in Britain.  Although street-name signs have always used capital letters and separate words, e.g. “REGENT STREET”, “BRIGHTON ROAD”, it was the practice in printed text up to about the 19th century to hyphenate the words and use all lower-case for the second word, e.g. “Regent-street”, “Brighton-road”.  I’ve never been able to work out why.

Stratford-upon-Avon, for example. That’s really fascinating. Let us know it you ever find out why.

When I was much younger, we had a relatives living in rural areas, and their addresses were Route 2, Route 7, etc. When 911 was introduced—along with the computerized tracking of emergency calls—all homes and businesses had to have road or street names and numbers.

Many families were able to name their own roads, and many of these same families lived on land with several roads running through it. So, in one area of town, we now have Carlisle Bennet Road, Penny Bennet Road, Bennet Dairy Road, Bennet School Road, etc.

If there’s ever an medical emergency in the Bennet family, I hope they take the right person to the hospital.

Thank you very much, your examples are very easy to memorise.

You’re welcome from all of us.

Fascinating, do you live on saparris road? Saparris School Road? Sapparis Dairy Road? Saparris House-seller road?

Fascinating, do you live on saparris road? Saparris School Road? Sapparis Dairy Road? Saparris House-seller road?

I never got to name a road. If I did, I think I would call it Dead End Street.

I love the way streets with no exit in poorer sections of a town are called: No Exit, Dead End, whereas in the richer areas of a city they area Cul-de-sacs, Circles and the like.

I like the names of subdivisions, and I have discovered that:

Anything with Acres in the name means small lots.
Anything with Plantation in the name means the same thing.
Anything with Creek or Bluff in the name has no creek or bluff.
Anything with Farms in the name prohibits livestock.
Anything called _______wood has no trees.
Anything called _______ Oaks had pine trees.
The least expensive neighborhoods with the smallest lots are most likely to be called ____ Estates.

Interesting.
We don’t use plantation here.  But estates are usually large expensive homes, but each is a carbon copy of the one across the street and three lots down: huge front areas, no trees.
Bluff would be bluff here: the Iowegian town across the creek is called Council Bluffs, from a bluff whereon certain Lakota tribes held council meetings in times past.
Farms would be farms, as would woods, etc.
Ours have inspiring names like “Avalon” estates, “Linden” estates. They use “cove” a few times: small sand pit lakes and build on them.
Skyline: any drive over a bluff.
I’ll have to watch more closely as I drive around,  might make an interesting ‘thread”.