On thread, well sort of. Mine names of shafts etc tend to be named after either the leader of the group who drove or sunk them or a director or shareholder in the mining company. There is actually a "Roys Shaft" somewhere I cant place, but "Roy" was the surname of somebody.
here is a story. A name may well be not 'non PC' but still cause some offence.
Now one of the main operators in Wales was John Taylor and Co. Taylor was from Norwich, so if anyone refers to him as a Cornishman they wrong, although his company was Cornwall based. He had mining interests at Rhandymwyn and when a new shaft was sunk they were stuck for a name for it. The was already a Taylors Shaft. Someone had joked that they way he was going he would conquer all of Wales, so the new shaft was then named Conquer of Wales Shaft. I bet this went down real well with the locals.
By way, the quote in my original posting was nought to do with TG. It was from a lady who was training health care workers who was teaching that men could give birth out of their penises and was in the interests of 'inclusivity' if thats a proper word. I think if I was to be treated by that lady I would run out of the hospital in my pyjama’s or whatever.
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