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To: richardtavor

what’s a street building?

statute, street and building maybe?


7 posted on 01/17/2021 7:42:42 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: Pollard
Aren't you nit-picky this morning?

But good catch. I never saw that before. Perhaps it is a Britishism. In the US, we often name buildings for their streets like this:

"The 90 West Street Building is an extraordinary building - for its architecture, and for surviving 9/11. But to begin at the beginning: The West Street Building was built as an office building for shipping and rail companies..."
Maybe Orwell was shortening the name of a building (the "West Street Building") to just "street building."

Maybe the typesetter made a typo.

17 posted on 01/17/2021 8:12:54 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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