Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Accommodating misspellings in Rathgar

This notice is outside a bistro in Rathgar.

And on Bloomsday too.

One is reminded of Jimmy O’Dea singing ’Thank Heavens we are living in Rathgar’

Most likely they spell accommodate correctly in Heaven.

“There are quite decent suburbs, I am sure,

O Rathmines is not so bad, or Terenure,

O we’ve heard of spots like Inchicore,

But really don’t know where they are;

For, thank heavens, we are living in Rathgar.”

— From ‘Thank Heavens We Are Living In Rathgar’, written by Harry O’Donovan and sung by Jimmy O’Dea,

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