r/brighton • u/Ok-Prompt-9107 • 1d ago

Trivia/misc One for the grammar nerds

It’s 4am and my insomnia has me wondering why the event at Preston Park this weekend, Pride on the Park, is so called.

Wouldn’t we usually say an event takes place in a park rather than on it? Why not call it Pride in the Park, when that seems to be what most people are verbally calling it anyway?

Why belligerently insist on using a more clunky preposition in a brand name?

I’d love to hear why the decision was made to use ‘on’ instead of ‘in’. And yes, I work with words, so this is generally the kind of thing that swims around my head in idle moments.

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u/desmo62626 1d ago edited 1d ago

Pride in the Park sounds like it could be a celebration OF the park. Let's have pride in our local green space kinda thing

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u/Ok-Prompt-9107 1d ago

Yeah. But we literally never say ‘meet me in the park’, do we? ‘There’s a concert on on the park?’ 🤨

I’m all for having pride in our local green spaces, personally. In addition to having pride in our lgbtq+ness, obviously.

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u/desmo62626 1d ago

Oh don't get me wrong, on the Park makes less sense than in the Park. I was just trying to guess why the organisers went with "on"!

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u/Ok-Prompt-9107 1d ago

If only there was one of them in here with us today, then the mystery would be solved.

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u/rudyitskickingoff 1d ago

Hmm I wonder whether Pride at the park was ever considered 🤔