Re: OT: Place name constituents

On 5/20/06, Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
>
> On 20/05/06, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
> > I can raise... we also have an Old Peachtree Street Road Highway.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peachtree_Street
>
> You'll pardon my scepticism, but I can't seem to find any independent
> verification of that.

I've likewise never heard of it, and I live in metro Atlanta as well...

The most annoying phenomenon to me, however, is the practice of naming roads
according to their destination.  Thus, if you are in downtown Atlanta, you
find a "Marietta St" that will take you to Marietta.  By the time you get
there, of course, it has become "Atlanta Road".

Where this causes problems is the duplication.  If you are in the Buckhead
district of the city of Atlanta, there is a Roswell Road which runs north to
Roswell (not to be confused with the New Mexican one).  If you are in the
aforementioned Marietta, there is also a Roswell Road which runs east to
Roswell.  In the general vicinity of Roswell, before either of them has
changed names, you therefore have two "Roswell Road"s .  The existence of
"Lower Roswell Road" and "Old Roswell Road" only contributes to the
confusion, of course...




-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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