Last weekend, I was in Weston-super-Mare, the seaside resort on the Somerset coast.
Weston was major in Victorian times, with great pretensions. 'Super mare' was added to give the place some class. It's just the Latin way of saying 'on the sea', but it sounds much posher. Bognor on the Sussex coast tried the same Latin trick in 1929, actually claiming royal patronage, by renaming itself Bognor
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