How do you pronounce Princes Highway?

[Johnny Telcher]

How do you pronounce Princes Highway? I usually pronounce it as Prince’s but sometimes I pronounce it as Princess instead. How do you pronounce it?

[Paul Rands]

Not Princess. Definitely Prince's, as in the Prince owns the highway.

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On 7/08/2022 01:09, Johnny Telcher wrote:

How do you pronounce Princes Highway? I usually pronounce it as Prince’s but sometimes I pronounce it as Princess instead. How do you pronounce it? --
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[Luke W]

Blame modern Australian geographic naming conventions which remove possessive apostrophes from everything - even if for some reason it causes a lot of misreading of the name in Melbourne for some reason. (Which has been exploited in some ways, admittedly - Myer called one of their in-house female youth brands "Princess Highway" for instance.)

[Csanad Csutoros]

Lol, I think the bigger issue is the number of people (including those with tertiary qualifications) who have no idea when and when not to use an apostrophe. 

I kinda agree with the geo convention, apostrophes look ugly on road signs plus it can be argued that contextually they don't really belong. 

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[#130km/hforthehume]

https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/planning-and-property/land-and-property-development/suburb-road-and-place-names/geographical-names-guidelines should summarise it all as to why Australian geographic naming conventions have removed the apostrophes from possessive nouns.

[Aevion]

I had a fold-out map when I was a kid which actually had the road mislabelled as Princess Highway. It was a pretty old map, but I would always call it Princess Highway, and nobody ever corrected me. I was quite surprised when I saw a street directory with the name Princes Highway in it as I couldn't understand why they couldn't spell Princess. 

Oh, to be five again....

[AlienChex]

So the highway was named after the Prince of Wales in the 1920s, so it is the Prince’s Highway, as in possessive s. The apostrophe was dropped assumingly because an apostrophe on every road sign and in the road name would just look silly.