01/15/07 •
Posted in: Five Points, Poll by Joey Marchy
I’m just wondering what the official spelling of 5 Points is. I keep going back and forth between 5-Points and 5 Points, and I never write Five Points. Also should Riverside and 5 Points be lumped together into one category or are they very separate places?
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5ive points refers to the one block or so radius (centering around that dangerous intersection of park and margeret streets) within riverside.
riverside contains 5ivepts, just as jax contains riverside.
therefore we may say that starbucks is in riverside but not 5ivepts and that pizza palace has two riverside locations, one of which is within 5ivepts.
Well put, r.
Being less than 10, the number of “points” should be spelled out. Only numbers higher than 10 are written as numerals.
Only numbers 10 or higher, I meant.
I was trying to think of a smart-ass answer and got beat to it. I don’t think I can top that although if this was a chalkboard I could doodle a pretty wicked fake math equation somehow involving “πPoints” (piPoints/3.14Points) hahaha.
“5 Points, how do you spell it?”
S-C-A-R-Y :)
My bologna has a first name.
Joey, as a child when I would visit the area with my grandmother it was called “Five Points”. That was back when people used to spell everything out and did not use acronyms.
I mean when people “use” to spell everything out.
No,wait, I think it is used. ….lets just say when people spelled everything out and did not use acronyms. :)
Mom Marchy - my sisters and I would stand at the top of the stairs and yell simple, quick homework questions down to the kitchen:
“MMMMOMMM! What’s the capital of Peru?”
Then we would lay (lie) on the carpet in the hallway as my mom gave us the entire history of Peru from the beginning of time to present.
I miss that…
Phil
Typing rules for correspondence for years…when writing text in paragraph form, spell out the number word and follow with the numeral in parentheses: “Five (5) people were eaten by one hundred (100) cockroaches”.
Over a proper name, it’d be different though…in this case, I recall older pictures displaying the location’s name…always spelled out…never once seeing the numeral five (5).
This is an awfully late response but, I always looked
at it as 5 Points. My Uncle & Grandmother owned
and operated the 5 Points Deli, now known as Gina’s
Deli. So it just came naturally to me to always call it
that.