Apostrophes

[c00ky83]

How come on the London Underground you pas through Earl's Court but then Barons Court?

[Ethel]

One earl and many barons?

[c00ky83]

Well then it would be Barons'.

I bet the answer isn't as good as the question...

[gary baldy]

This doesnt explain it but does give an insight in to the name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barons_Court

[Quizmonster]

Granted they are not underground stations, but the briefest of glances at a London street guide revealed Freemans Road, Martins Close and Painters Road. None of these contains an apostrophe either. One just has to respond to this sort of thing down with the response: "Because it's so!"

[Quizmonster]

I'm not sure where the 'down' came from in my response above. Oh, for a 5-minute editing facility!

[Loosehead]

Well Clearly it's a court owned by a bloke called Earl and a statement of fact about barons, I mean clearly a Baron would take a young lady out to dinner occasionally so one could say Barons court.

[fo3nix]

it should have an apostraphe. but it'll be for some historical reason that it hasn't got one (can't help you there, sorry). lots of other old places don't have apostraphes too.

[spacechimp]

Wasn't this mentioned on TV relatively recently? On Have I got news for you?" or similar?