TheParser
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I have just read this written by a British journalist: "The Evening Standard [newspaper] was in a run-down building on Shoe Lane near the Holborn Viaduct."
(1) If it is a street, why did he use "on"? (I have read that the British usually use "in" when referring to streets.)
(2) If it is a district, why did he use "on"?
(3) I did some googling and discovered that some more recent results gave "on Shoe Lane" and some older references gave "in Shoe Lane." Is the use of the preposition a-changing?
THANK YOU
(1) If it is a street, why did he use "on"? (I have read that the British usually use "in" when referring to streets.)
(2) If it is a district, why did he use "on"?
(3) I did some googling and discovered that some more recent results gave "on Shoe Lane" and some older references gave "in Shoe Lane." Is the use of the preposition a-changing?
THANK YOU