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  2. Street name - Wikipedia

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    A street name is an identifying name given to a street or road. In toponymic terminology, names of streets and roads are referred to as odonyms or hodonyms (from Ancient Greek ὁδός hodós 'road', and ὄνυμα ónuma 'name', i.e., the Doric and Aeolic form of ὄνομα ónoma 'name'). [1]

  3. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.

  4. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...

  5. The most unique street names in the world - AOL

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    August 2, 2017 at 12:46 PM. Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any ...

  6. Who the heck was Ben White? The people, places and things ...

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    Ben White Boulevard: Named after a popular Austin City Council member who served from 1951 to 1967. Early on, it was a two-lane road known as Allred Lane, named for Sam Allred, a Travis County ...

  7. Mysteries of Milwaukee street names explained, from ... - AOL

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    The tribute even survived a city campaign in the late 1920s to standardize street names. “They eliminated 100 or so street names … but they didn’t touch Layton Boulevard," Baehr said of city ...

  8. Street name controversy - Wikipedia

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    A street name controversy is a conflict over a public road or ... Others opine that bilingualism of street names is good for individual understanding and mutual ...

  9. List of streets of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    John Churchill Chase (1st Edition was published in 1949.) (1997).Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans, 3rd Edition.Touchstone. {{}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ISBN 0-684-84570-9