this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2025
15 points (100.0% liked)

Photography

0 readers
95 users here now

All things photography. Share your own original photos, your questions, your inspiration.

Rules

Share your own original photography. No NSFW images. Be Nice.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

"Pennsylvania Avenue Subway" Tunnel (Former Reading Railroad), Philadelphia, 2004.

#photography

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

(The Reading company was named after the Pennsylvania city, and so is pronounced to include the past tense of what you do with words on a page, not the present tense).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

@[email protected] Exactly the same as Reading, Berkshire, so I suppose it is just copied. The etymology of the original name is a tribe name, Readingas, meaning in Old Saxon "the people of the Red [one]".