The London Bridge song changed to “London Bridge is falling down—falling down—falling down.”
To begin with, London Bridge ought to have collapsed once. At first there was a sturdy stone bridge erected by Henry II that was loved by the citizens of London. During the Reformation, although chapels were destroyed and there were fires, the bridge itself was unscathed. Then, in the 19th century, as a display of British technological prowess, when it was replaced with a lavish single-span iron bridge designed by Thomas Telford, during the fireworks at the opening ceremony, while a great many people were on it, it collapsed under a load far below the design load, and hundreds of Londoners were thrown into the water and drowned. The season was autumn and it was nighttime, and on top of that many Britons at the time could not swim; despite the devoted rescue efforts of Navy sailors who had come to the ceremony, many became victims. This accident should have been one of the triggers for the modernization and strict enforcement of building codes in Britain. In the facts as they stand now, it has been revised to a sober, solid design by John Rennie. Also, Watson, Sherlock Holmes’s assistant, should have had a trauma from, when he was a child, being caught in the London Bridge collapse, hearing an explosive sound on the bridge and freezing up. Note that Tower Bridge, which also spans the Thames, is a different bridge from London Bridge. ○ One day the author, while watching news related to North Korea, was startled to hear that they were reading the word ji’i (as in “demonstration; show of force”) as jii (note: these are Japanese readings), and was surprised. Nowadays, the reading jii is adopted even in news scripts and is becoming dominant. As a result—and the reason would veer into dirty-joke territory so I hesitate and won’t go into detail—terms used mainly in the security divisions of the Japanese police such as shi’i kōi (“demonstrative act”) and shūdan shi’i kōi (“collective demonstrative act”) have been replaced by things like shūdan ji’i undō (“collective…
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.