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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.With two languages in use, it's easy to get confused in Belgium. For example, if you actually want to travel to Ghent by train, the platform monitors might show that lovely city with either the Flemish name 'Gent' or the French name 'Gand'. (It can also appear as 'Gint').
I met some American tourists at a train station who were distressed to find that there were no trains for Antwerp shown on the screens. I pointed out to them that they were in the French-speaking part of Belgium so, instead of the destination being shown as the Flemish 'Antwerpen', it was being shown as the French 'Anvers'.
I met some American tourists at a train station who were distressed to find that there were no trains for Antwerp shown on the screens. I pointed out to them that they were in the French-speaking part of Belgium so, instead of the destination being shown as the Flemish 'Antwerpen', it was being shown as the French 'Anvers'.
I used to live on the main road between Sheffield and Barnsley. The guy who ran our local convenience store got fed up of explaining to travelling golf fans that the Wentworth they knew they were near to (Wentworth Woodhouse) wasn't the Wentworth that they'd paid megabucks to get into to watch a golf tournament. They looked at him open-mouthed when, in response to their question of "How far are we from Wentworth?", he replied "About 170 miles" ;-)
We weren't far from Wales (Rotherham) either. That's been known to cause confusion too ;-)
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. . . and there's Frankfurt too ;-)
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Right name, wrong continent ;-)
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When I ran a railway station, I was often asked, "Which train must I catch for Liverpool?" I was always tempted to provide the completely accurate answer of "Catch the Peterborough train and change there" but a bit of lateral thinking invariably made me ask, "Do you mean Liverpool Street in London?" They always did!
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