In article ,
Jon wrote:

the silly tendency to towrads road names with no suffix at all, making
ordinary suburban streets sound as if they are rural hamlets too small
to have street names as such.

Or alternatively as if they are in the dodgier estates of Bracknell !

Nick
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Nick Leverton wrote:
In article
,
Jon wrote:

the silly tendency [towards] road names with no suffix at all,
making ordinary suburban streets sound as if they are rural hamlets
too small to have street names as such.

Or alternatively as if they are in the dodgier estates of Bracknell !

Or alternatively as if they are in central London, such as Piccadilly,
Strand, Poultry, Kingsway, Queensway, Holborn, Cheapside, Cornhill,
Houndsditch, Millbank.

--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Richard J. wrote:
Nick Leverton wrote:
In article
,
Jon wrote:

the silly tendency [towards] road names with no suffix at all,
making ordinary suburban streets sound as if they are rural hamlets
too small to have street names as such.

Or alternatively as if they are in the dodgier estates of Bracknell !

Or alternatively as if they are in central London, such as Piccadilly,
Strand, Poultry, Kingsway, Queensway, Holborn, Cheapside, Cornhill,
Houndsditch, Millbank.

I blame Boris! Only a city in which he's Mayor could have silly names like
that.

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:56:24 +0100, "John Rowland"
wrote:

I notice that part of Gillett St N16 has been renamed to Bailey Place N16...
unfortunately, there is already a Batley Place N16, so there will be
numerous letters sent to the wrong address over the next 50 years.

I have come across several cases where roads have been named by
developers. There is a street in Grimsby called Thorgam Court named
after the builders Thornber and Gammon. There are two streets in
Ballachulish called Elizabeth Terrace and Angus Terrace called after
the developer's parents.
--
Alasdair.

In message , at 23:48:17 on
Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Alasdair remarked:
I have come across several cases where roads have been named by
developers. There is a street in Grimsby called Thorgam Court named
after the builders Thornber and Gammon.

There's a Docwra's Close next to Shepreth Station. Pronounce that!

There are two streets in Ballachulish called Elizabeth Terrace and
Angus Terrace called after the developer's parents.

If you are allowing that kind of "naming after", then many of the
Victorian roads in West Bridgford are apparently named after the
developer's relatives... Albert, Florence, Mabel, Violet, Edward,
George, Henry, Millicent etc.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
23:48:17 on Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Alasdair
remarked:
I have come across several cases where roads have been named by
developers. There is a street in Grimsby called Thorgam Court named
after the builders Thornber and Gammon.

There's a Docwra's Close next to Shepreth Station. Pronounce that!

No harder than "Gwydir".

There are two streets in Ballachulish called Elizabeth Terrace and
Angus Terrace called after the developer's parents.

If you are allowing that kind of "naming after", then many of the
Victorian roads in West Bridgford are apparently named after the
developer's relatives... Albert, Florence, Mabel, Violet, Edward,
George, Henry, Millicent etc.

Ah! The Street family! Like Albert, George and Herbert in Chesterton, for
example.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 23:48:17
on Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Alasdair remarked:
I have come across several cases where roads have been named by
developers. There is a street in Grimsby called Thorgam Court named
after the builders Thornber and Gammon.

There's a Docwra's Close next to Shepreth Station.

And Docwra's Buildings in N1.

There are two streets in Ballachulish called Elizabeth Terrace and
Angus Terrace called after the developer's parents.

If you are allowing that kind of "naming after", then many of the
Victorian roads in West Bridgford are apparently named after the
developer's relatives... Albert, Florence, Mabel, Violet, Edward,
George, Henry, Millicent etc.

The ladder between Elsiemaud Rd and Phoebeth Rd are all portmanteaux of two
names - it hadn't occurred to me that they might be real people.

On 24 Aug, 23:52, "Richard J." wrote:
Nick Leverton wrote:
In article
,
Jon wrote:

the silly tendency [towards] road names with no suffix at all,
making ordinary suburban streets sound as if they are rural hamlets
too small to have street names as such.

Or alternatively as if they are in the dodgier estates of Bracknell !

Or alternatively as if they are in central London, such as Piccadilly,
Strand, Poultry, Kingsway, Queensway, Holborn, Cheapside, Cornhill,
Houndsditch, Millbank.


Those are mainly 'evolved' names with historical reasons for their
lack of suffix, not spurious ones invented by a marketer.

Jon wrote:
On 24 Aug, 23:52, "Richard J." wrote:
Nick Leverton wrote:
In article
,
Jon wrote:
the silly tendency [towards] road names with no suffix at all,
making ordinary suburban streets sound as if they are rural hamlets
too small to have street names as such.
Or alternatively as if they are in the dodgier estates of Bracknell !
Or alternatively as if they are in central London, such as Piccadilly,
Strand, Poultry, Kingsway, Queensway, Holborn, Cheapside, Cornhill,
Houndsditch, Millbank.


Those are mainly 'evolved' names with historical reasons for their
lack of suffix, not spurious ones invented by a marketer.

And in the case of most of them, effectively they have suffixes - King's
Way, Queen's Way, Cheap Side, Corn Hill, Hound's Ditch, Mill Bank.

Peter Beale

In message . uk, at
09:30:00 on Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Colin Rosenstiel
remarked:
There's a Docwra's Close next to Shepreth Station. Pronounce that!

No harder than "Gwydir".

I can have a stab at "Gwydir" (perhaps to rhyme with "why-dear", or is
it "wider"), but "Docwra" seems superficially unpronounceable as there's
a middle vowel missing; "Doc-wer-ah" maybe, or is it "doe-cur-uh"
--
Roland Perry