The letters "St" before a word are an abbreviation of Saint, and after a word represent street.
Here in England there are (at least) two towns called St. Ives - one a market town in Cambridgeshire and one a seaside town in Cornwall. In my view both are equally beautiful.
I was in the Cambridgeshire St. Ives yesterday to give a pint of blood and snapped a few pictures while I was there.
There's an old, nonsensical, nursery rhyme about the Cambridgeshire St. Ives that goes like this:
As I was going to St Ives I met a man with seven wives Every wife had seven sacks Every sack had seven cats Every cat had seven kits Kits, cats, sacks, wives. How many were going to St Ives?
The Wikipedia entry suggests the riddle is ambiguous and that there are several possible answers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_was_going_to_St_Ives#Use_in_popular_culture
There is also a pub in St. Ives called the Seven Wives:
Here in England there are (at least) two towns called St. Ives - one a market town in Cambridgeshire and one a seaside town in Cornwall. In my view both are equally beautiful.
I was in the Cambridgeshire St. Ives yesterday to give a pint of blood and snapped a few pictures while I was there.
The Wikipedia entry suggests the riddle is ambiguous and that there are several possible answers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_was_going_to_St_Ives#Use_in_popular_culture
There is also a pub in St. Ives called the Seven Wives:
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