Lesser minds might describe it as whimsy. I see it as evidence of the same confusion that got us involved in a war in the Balkans. The possibilities include but are not limited to alley, avenue, boulevard, circle, court, cove, crescent, crossing, dale, drive, estate, extension, gardens, gate, heights, highway, lake, landing, lane, loop, park, parkway, path, place, plaza, point, promenade, ridge, road, roadway, square, street, terrace, trace, trail, village, or way, to say nothing of commonly used foreign words such as camino, calle, etc.
Guilford County, North Carolina, prefers: North-south streets — street; east-west — avenue take that, Manhattan Diagonal — road Dead-end streets — terrace, point, cove, dale, way Cul-de-sacs — court Short curved roads with ingress and egress from the same thoroughfare — circle. Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, is even more precise: North-south cul-de-sac — circle. East-west cul-de-sac — court. Begins and ends at same thoroughfare — loop Meandering — road. You get the picture. Lacking a detailed national standard where are the French when we need them?
One may hazard the generalization that long streets typically are called avenue, street, highway, road, etc. But there are many exceptions even to this simple rule.
The U. What does someone call a short street with only a single outlet to a larger street? I wondered because I found different terms that varied geographically. There seemed to be a cultural dimension to it as well. Certain suffixes seemed to be more prevalent in the United Kingdom and others in the United States, with Canada displaying elements of both.
This time I focused on the humble cul-de-sac. They became a favored symbol of unbridled construction and suburban sprawl. All those dead end streets allowed developers to stuff more homes onto lots at the expense of traffic efficiency.
From the Online Etymology Dictionary :. I guess it made sense. The cluster of homes at the end of a road resembled the bottom of a sack. Cars going into the sac could only exit the same way.
No other choices existed. The point today was to examine the designation of such roads, specifically the suffixes appended to them.
I got started on this unfortunate idea when I examined the Isle of Dogs in the recent Random Islands article. I noticed a street with an odd suffix; Wheat Sheaf Close. Was this a common thing, I wondered? Were little dead-end streets in the United Kingdom sometimes referred to as Closes?
It seemed to be the case as I checked various random corners of the British Isles. They existed in Canada too. Since they have almost killed this site, I am going to start releasing details on Monday August 17 of my conversation with the Google employee who told me about the penalty in secret. This will culminate in my release of an MBOX file including full headers. More here. MBOX file here. I am going to start releasing details on Monday August 17 of my conversation with the Google employee who told me about the penalty in secret.
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