From: peter@parksidewood.nospam   
      
   On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 08:13:48 +0000, JMB99  wrote:   
      
   >On 30/11/2023 23:32, Ian Goddard wrote:   
   >> Just to quote a contrary case, I'm working on a C18th copy of a map   
   >> supposedly of the time of Henry V.  This includes a list of landmarks,   
   >> some of which have two word names.  The first word is capitalised and   
   >> the second not, e.g. "Within edge".  Many of them do have the faintest   
   >> of hyphens but not Within edge.   
   >   
   >   
   >Conventions change over the years, if you look in old newspapers they   
   >usually have streets as "high-street" with no capitalisation.   
      
   I was about to post the example of High-street in newspapers when I   
   read this, as I have seen dozens, if not hundreds, like that. I   
   suppose that the capitalisation of street, road, crescent &c followed   
   the abandonment of the hyphen, which I suspect was 1950s onwards.   
      
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