TUBE MAP (n.) Diagram designed, using simple coloured lines, to confuse tourists, thus ensuring they stand observing its image obstruking Londoners traversing the Underground.

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SPEED CAMERA (n.) Optikal device designed to capture images of the unwary whose carriages doth exceed walking pace.

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POST OFFICE TOWER (n.) Peculiar struckture that doth disappear from view the closer one aporoaches, despite much branding it is not yet known as the BT Tower.

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ZONE 6 (n.) Hinterland devoid of Hansom cabs and drivers doth willing, by carriage, to transport gentlemen to those lands.

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ANGEL, THE (n.) Named after a stagecoach inn, now a conurbation of alehouses dubbed supper street.

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