Main Street morphs into High Street

Going Forward

Whats with this trend for substituting the very Irish term of "Main Street" in favour of the very English "High Street"?

For example:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/search/?cx=004422957488353982429%3A4gb73lvknqy&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=high+street&x=12&y=7

And who decided that doctors must now be known as GPs?

Very Little Britain:D

humanji

Is it that main shopping strips are high streets and main roads are main streets? That's what I always thought.

DoozerT6

How come the chemist is now the pharmacist???

darkpagandeath

And window cleaners

exterior maintenance technician

phasers

And whats the deal with everyone calling their bumbershoot an umbrella? Madness.

Sh1tbag OToole

Whats with this "Going forward" phrase creeping in?

Down with this sort of thing!

Lapin

There's a High St here in Galway, but no Main St.

So the term sits very well with me.

And Galway ain't no Little Britain city.

Its the most Irish city of the lot.

Wacker The Attacker

Its still town

McLoughlin

Wexford Town has a High St and a Main St.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

And what's with the way every time Father Ted rang Father Larry Duff he always got killed but in a future episode he'd be there again.

He most certainly didn't appear to be 'tremenjous' fun to me.

Celly Smunt

DoozerT6 wrote: »

How come the chemist is now the pharmacist???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnGPgCVJUsI

jobeenfitz

none of this matters when your drunk. Havn't a clue wots wot.

Muise...

Lapin wrote: »

There's a High St here in Galway, but no Main St.

So the term sits very well with me.

And Galway ain't no Little Britain city.

Its the most Irish city of the lot.

Well there's Mainguard St. -and a Flood Street that doesn't lie.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

McLoughlin wrote: »

Wexford Town has a High St and a Main St.

Wexford has two streets!!! :eek::eek::eek:

wp_rathead

Lapin wrote: »

There's a High St here in Galway, but no Main St.

So the term sits very well with me.

And Galway ain't no Little Britain city.

Its the most Irish city of the lot.

sure t'is all just shop street to me Lapin :P

anncoates

It really beggars belief the sh*te that occupies people's minds.

brightspark

Tullamore has had a "High Street" for years (probably named as it is uphill!)

It only got a "Main Street" several years ago when a local developer created a new street of shops and called it "Main Street", I think there were even some objectors to the name at the time.

jobeenfitz

anncoates wrote: »

It really beggars belief the sh*te that occupies people's minds.

Beggars belif? Na. Shur we are all mad.

MadsL

Anyone get anything in the mail today? I used to get a bunch of junk mail, but I throw it in the trash.

Zebra3

Going Forward wrote: »

Whats with this trend for substituting the very Irish term of "Main Street" in favour of the very English "High Street"?

For example:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/search/?cx=004422957488353982429%3A4gb73lvknqy&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=high+street&x=12&y=7

And who decided that doctors must now be known as GPs?

Very Little Britain:D

Irish Examiner is a West Brit paper, sure what would you expect?

Fr_Dougal

Anyone that uses Hight St. over here should be chastised, anyone that uses 'mom' should be slapped...hard.

Doc Ruby

Where I come from we call it... Shop Street.

Because it's where all the shops are you see. City fathers weren't long on fancy words. Gets the job done though.

bodice ripper

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Anyone that uses Hight St. over here should be chastised, anyone that uses 'mom' should be slapped...hard.

What if the mother in question is from the United States?

CrabRevolution

After looking at an old map of my town and it seems the street known as high street has had that name for at least 100 years.

Calling it main street would look strange though as its not near being the most important street with the most shops.

delta_bravo

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Anyone that uses Hight St. over here should be chastised, anyone that uses 'mom' should be slapped...hard.

So of I'm addressing a letter to a person living in High street in Dublin city I should actually call it Main Street? A logic only your mom could agree with!

Going Forward

DoozerT6 wrote: »

How come the chemist is now the pharmacist???

And they all pronouncing medicine as medsin.

Fr_Dougal

delta_bravo wrote: »

So of I'm addressing a letter to a person living in High street in Dublin city I should actually call it Main Street? A logic only your mom could agree with!

Drinking? On a school night?