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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. Street suffix - Wikipedia

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    Notwithstanding this, some street names historically and linguistically do not carry a suffix, e.g. Broadway, Rampart, Embarcadero. This list below has examples of suffix forms that are primary street suffix names, common street suffixes or suffix abbreviations, recommended by the United States Postal Service.

  4. List of Latin names of cities - Wikipedia

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    Victoria, British Columbia. Vigornia. Worcester, England; Worcester, Massachusetts. Vindobona. Vienna, Austria. Latinized form of a Greek name. Naples/Neapolis is a rare exception to the rule of Latinization of foreign city names owing to the fact that it was established by the Greeks and predates Rome by many centuries.

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

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    The most unique street names in the world. 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 ...

  6. List of former Atlanta street names - Wikipedia

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    From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.As early as 1903 (see section below), there were concerns about the confusion this caused, as "more than 225 streets of Atlanta have had from two to eight names" in the first decades of the city.

  7. List of public signage typefaces - Wikipedia

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    Street Signs in Pinole Japan Railways (English signage) Being phased out on the Victorian public transport network in favour of Network Sans, but still commonly seen. SBB uses its own version of Neue Helvetica named SBB and named "Helvetica Semi-Bold Corrected" by its designer Josef Müller-Brockmann in the SBB Design Manual. Hiragino

  8. Japanese addressing system - Wikipedia

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    In the residential area, this type of green street address or chōmei name plates are applied. Pictured is an old type without roman scripts or city name, at Kuwabara in Matsuyama, Ehime . The address of the city block in Japanese means block 3, 4-chōme, Kuwabara town ( 桑原四丁目3 , Kuwabara yon-chōme san ) .

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

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    The United States Postal Service has published a list of the most common city and post office [2] names within the United States, as of 2020: Cities. Post offices. 1 Franklin (31) 1 Clinton (26) 2 Clinton, Washington (29 each) 2 Madison (25)