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    I know this is picky but this place says Gamekeeper's Free House on the pub sign (picture to come). It's only the Facebook page that has it wrong as all one word.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
    I know this is picky but this place says Gamekeeper's Free House on the pub sign (picture to come). It's only the Facebook page that has it wrong as all one word.
    Not sure the venue's Facebook page has it "wrong" since the Google-sphere seems almost united in having it as a single word, so perhaps the signwriter got it wrong instead?

    The only place that seems to take a different stance is What?ub, and that just dispenses with the 'freehouse' / 'free house' bit altogether.

    This case is far from unique in this respect (with two examples springing immediately to mind being The Gatehouse and The Sugar Loaf), although you would think that owners would be more careful about ensuring consistency in how they refer to their own businesses.

    I would happily take the What?ub approach, but will leave the decision on this to another dwarf on a higher pay grade...

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    Quote Originally Posted by rpadam View Post
    Not sure the venue's Facebook page has it "wrong" since the Google-sphere seems almost united in having it as a single word, so perhaps the signwriter got it wrong instead?

    The only place that seems to take a different stance is What?ub, and that just dispenses with the 'freehouse' / 'free house' bit altogether.

    This case is far from unique in this respect (with two examples springing immediately to mind being The Gatehouse and The Sugar Loaf), although you would think that owners would be more careful about ensuring consistency in how they refer to their own businesses.

    I would happily take the What?ub approach, but will leave the decision on this to another dwarf on a higher pay grade...
    In my experience a Free House has always been the two words. I'd be happy to see the Freehouse dropped.
    I use micropub without a space in reviews even though spell checkers object to it. It's a new word and the spell checkers should accept it.

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    Freehouse is a descriptor, not part of the name in my opinion. It's a different size to the main name which clinches it for me.

    I've removed it.
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    I'm just wondering what possession of the Gamekeeper they're referring to here, possibly he owns a greengrocer's apostrophe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    I'm just wondering what possession of the Gamekeeper they're referring to here, possibly he owns a greengrocer's apostrophe?
    Good point, to make it grammatically correct the apostrophe should be removed despite what What Pub has. I'm sure all the locals just call it the Gamekeepers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    I'm just wondering what possession of the Gamekeeper they're referring to here, possibly he owns a greengrocer's apostrophe?
    Nice one! I guess that what he "has" is his way with Lady Chatterley.

    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
    Good point, to make it grammatically correct the apostrophe should be removed despite what What Pub has. I'm sure all the locals just call it the Gamekeepers.
    Not sure it would be grammatically correct, but anyway it wouldn't reflect the name of the pub as depicted on the sign board above the door. I'm all for leaving it as it is, with the apostrophe in place.
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