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Yeah but nobody calls it the Buxtons whereas loads of misguided fools witter on about the Peaks
@thegeneralist @gwaelod - "the brecons" is a natural English method for shortening the brecon beacons. That's kinda what people usually do for all sorts of things in the English language.
"The Peaks" is a reasonable shortening of the peak district- unless someone has previously told you that "the peaks" is actually locally known as "The Peak". (And, despite having spent considerable time there, working in Sheff and living not far away for many years of my life I still don't know whether that applies to just the Dark Peak, or the White Peak, or are you able to call the Dark and White Peaks together "The Peaks" because you're talking about things in the plural?)
Unless someone can explain to people why it's "insulting" they're perfectly reasonable for people to use. If you point out to them that you take offence at those names then maybe they'll use different names.
But maybe not. They don't have to care. Almost nobody does. And that's absolutely fine. You don't own them, the hills themselves don't take offence, at best you've an affinity with them. You may dearly love them. But they ain't yours and living local is no excuse to be angry at "outsiders". In fact, it's a bit too Royston Vasey and a sign that you need to get out more.
It's incumbent on people who take offence at such trivial things to learn how to deal with their self-generated anger 🙂
Agreed
Brecon is the place. The Beacons are the hills. So call it the Beacons. There's only one Brecon!
“The Peaks” is a reasonable shortening of the peak district- unless someone has previously told you that “the peaks” is actually locally known as “The Peak”. (And, despite having spent considerable time there, working in Sheff and living not far away for many years of my life I still don’t know whether that applies to just the Dark Peak, or the White Peak, or are you able to call the Dark and White Peaks together “The Peaks” because you’re talking about things in the plural?)
It's like being back on UKClimbing. The argument could last for months on end. 🙂 It's named after a local tribe apparently, nowt to do with hills.