What's in a STREET name?

[Duck on Wheels]

The residents were affected (by the decision to build Skyline Drive.)

As a verb affect means “to act on” or “to move” (His words affected the crowd so deeply that many wept)

The effect was that they were relocated.

The noun effect means “result, consequence”: (the serious effects of the oil spill.)

At least I think thats right.

Yep. I think so too. But you left out an apostraphe in "that's right".

p.s. And I spelled apostrophe wrong. There's always something :O

[Blueberry]

Ok all my streets are boring. Except for Rabbittail lane. How about people names? My dh had a friend who's last name was Head. He's dad's name was Harry Head! Does that count!

How 'bout Sandy Hiney (mother of a classmate in high school). My mom had a principal named Mr. Lovengood.

[nic840]

I live on a street named El Chorro...apparently the translation in Spanish slang is diarrea...Nice. I live in the Western US so I am sure there are quite a few spanish speaking people laughing at our name.
I was making a catalog order once and the guy taking the order on the phone giggled and asked me if I knew what my street name meant. YES!! Ugh!

I did just look it up in on an online translation site just to make sure...and Yes it means to gush, swash, squirt. Again...NICE.

I have seen a Sunnybrook Rd. - don't know if a Rebecca lived there.
Grew up near Easy St., the sign was stolen all the time.

I see quite a few good ones on rides but my retention stinks. Will have to work on it!

[Fredwina]

In the city to the west of me (upland, cA) There's both and Arrow Hiway and a Arrow Route. To make matters worse, they run parallel to each other.

[Flybye]

Back in the day when I was a fire dispatcher - I got turned in to the FCC by someone with too much time on their hands for swearing on the air. Not my fault the call was to Jacka** Acres.

You must be so ashamed of yourself

You obviously know what firemen are like, then?!

I had GOOD reason to be embarassed of my father when I was in high school, honest!

[Mr. Bloom]

We've just petitioned the city to rename our street to :

while Iwas trying togetthe CDburnedIoverflowed the bathtubthatIwascleaning and nowtheceilingintheden downstairs isfallingdown

This might be right up there with Lake Chigogagogmanchogagogchibundagunnamog (I may have the spelling wrong...anyone from Massachusetts who can help???)

[Mr. Bloom]

Northwest of Birmingham is the town of Winfield, which is west of Guin. In between is the town of Gu-Win...

Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.

Sweet Home Alabama!

[Fredwina]

When i went to college, The hospital was across the street(and up a hill) from a funeral home. I can several macabre jokes about that factoid...

[SouthernBelle]

Stumpy Lane.

BTW, I live on Shirley Dr. When I give my address to someone, I always say, "As in Laverne and..."

[Jolt]

I knew someone once who lived in Anniston Alabama. His address was:

Booger Hollow Road

I don't remember much about him, but I do recall him being "pickey"

Too funny! Was he a little snot?

[Tuckervill]

Northwest of Birmingham is the town of Winfield, which is west of Guin. In between is the town of Gu-Win...

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Sweet Home Alabama!

I've been to Guin, but not to Gu-Win. Or is it the other way 'round?

I so want to hear that story.

Karen

[RoadRaven]

When i first visited Rotorua with Ian (he's from Rotovegas..) there's a Tutenekai street..To this freakin day i always get it wrong...

Tutanekai Street

TU as in two
TA rhymes with car
NE as in near
KAI rymes with eye

A very smelly street with a very romantic story attached... Hinemoa and Tutanekai... *big sigh*

http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php...076-000083.htm

If you are ever stuck on pronouncing Maori, CC, when Ian talks about somewhere local (my local not yours) just remember that vowels in Maori never change...
This is how I teach basic pronunciation to my students:

a as in car
e as in pear
i as in me
o as core
u as in shoe

As long as you remember the vowel sounds, you can say pretty much anything in Maori and pretty much accurately.

[sgtiger]

a as in car
e as in pear
i as in me
o as core
u as in shoe

As long as you remember the vowel sounds, you can say pretty much anything in Maori and pretty much accurately.

Same vowel sounds in Hawaiian. When I first moved to Hawaii I read a sign that said Likelike Hwy. My cousin busted out laughing and informed me it was pronounced Lee-kay-lee-kay.

[HappyAnika]

Near where I live is Lick Skillet Road. It's a dirt road that shoots off of one of the most popular canyon rides nearby. According to Wikipedia, it's the steepest county road in the US. I *think* it covers 1000 vertical feet in 1 mile, that would make it 18.9%. The thing is it's nearly completely straight, going from the town of Gold Hill straight down to the paved canyon road. I'm sure there is an interesting story behind the name, but I don't know what it is and my brief google search didn't turn up any relevant information.

[Cindyloo]

Streets I remember fondly:

Journeys End
Shakerag Hill
Boy Scout Rd.