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Re: OT: Place name constituents

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Saturday, May 20, 2006, 6:40
On 20/05/06, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
> On 5/19/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote: > > >On 5/19/06, Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...> wrote: > > > > >My favourite in Toronto is Avenue Road. > > > > > > >>Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote: > > > > >>In Atlanta there's a street simply named Boulevard. > > > > Richmond, VA, has a Boulevard. They also have a Hull Street Bridge > > Road! > > 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. Google search for that turns up only Wikipedia mirrors, and Google Maps (which I've never used apart from now, so I might've done something wrong) also seems to know of no "Old Peachtree Street Road Highway". (The main road between Atlanta and Alpharetta seems to be Turner McDonald "Pky". "Pky" could be an abbreviation for "Old Peachtree Street Road Highway", but it'd be a strange one...) (Google turns up nothing for "Hull Street Bridge Road", either. It *does* however mention "High Street Road", and most even minor streets in Melbourne I tried, tho one of those isn't shown in any map either because it's too new ;) -- Tristan.

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