Dear Editor:
Every few years a letter appears in the North Shore News, written by some apparently lonely soul who expresses his umbrage at the spelling of street names on the Caulfeild Plateau in West Vancouver.
The indignant scribe complains that even if the plateau had once been owned by Francis William Caulfeild, that is certainly no reason to apply that unique spelling to street names such as Meadfeild and Timberfeild, to name two. In fact, taken to its logical conclusion, a future baseball diamond on the plateau may one day be named “Feild of Dreams.” Madness, surely!
It is in the same spirit of indignation that I write this letter. The North Shore News has recently contained a separate insert on something called MONOVA. Upon first seeing this odd mishmash of letters, I wondered what it meant. How should it be classified: is it a word? an acronym? an abbreviation? a contrivance?
Upon reading further, I discovered that MONOVA was a dreamed-up construct meant to represent the name “Museum Of NOrth VAncouver.” How cute! And where does one find such a thing called MONOVA? On Esplanade in LOLO, of course.
It seems to me that CINOVA has somewhat of a penchant in accommodating these linguistic nightmares. LOLO was bad enough, hatching (in my opinion) late one night in the brain of some stressed-out Realtor. And now we have a MONOVA in LOLO? What next? CELO for Central Lonsdale? NOLO for North Lonsdale? Where does it end?
I don’t believe that DINOVA suffers from the same odd propensity in these matters. At least I hope not.
An earlier issue of NOSHONEWS related how a majority of NOSHO residents are in favour of amalgamating CINOVA and DINOVA. If such an event took place, what would the new entity be called? CIDINOVA? DICINOVA? Since it would comprise such a large area of land, how about SUPERNOVA?
Well, enough indignation on my part. Wishing all of you at NOSHONEWS a MERXMAS and a HANEYEA!
P.C. MacDonald
District of North Vancouver
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