Fun fact: the Reading was a major northeastern US railroad (made famous internationally by its place on the Monopoly gameboard), which ceded its rail business in 1976 to the newly formed Conrail consortium. But the company kept most of its non-railroad real estate holdings, and today mostly operates cinemas (including NYC’s Angelika) in several countries
(The Reading company was named after the Pennsylvania city, and so is pronounced to include the past tense of what you do with words on a page, not the present tense).
@[email protected] Exactly the same as Reading, Berkshire, so I suppose it is just copied. The etymology of the original name is a tribe name, Readingas, meaning in Old Saxon “the people of the Red [one]”.
Fun fact: the Reading was a major northeastern US railroad (made famous internationally by its place on the Monopoly gameboard), which ceded its rail business in 1976 to the newly formed Conrail consortium. But the company kept most of its non-railroad real estate holdings, and today mostly operates cinemas (including NYC’s Angelika) in several countries
(The Reading company was named after the Pennsylvania city, and so is pronounced to include the past tense of what you do with words on a page, not the present tense).
@[email protected] Exactly the same as Reading, Berkshire, so I suppose it is just copied. The etymology of the original name is a tribe name, Readingas, meaning in Old Saxon “the people of the Red [one]”.
@mattblaze So you’re telling me it’s pronounced like Redding Railroad this whole time?
@antmuzic Yup. It’s basically a Shibboleth.