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Notwithstanding this, some street names historically and linguistically do not carry a suffix, e.g. Broadway, Rampart, Embarcadero. This list below has examples of suffix forms that are primary street suffix names, common street suffixes or suffix abbreviations, recommended by the United States Postal Service. [2]
Street names are usually renamed after political revolutions and regime changes for ideological reasons. In postsocialist Romania, after 1989, the percentage of street renaming ranged from 6% in Bucharest, [16] and 8% in Sibiu, to 26% in Timișoara. [17] Street names can be changed relatively easily by municipal authorities for various reasons.
suffix cheap, chipping OE market Chipping Norton, [22] Chipping Campden, Chepstow, Chipping: also as part of a street, e.g. Cheapside. Chippenham is from a personal name. clere Possibly W Possibly clear or bright [23] Burghclere, Highclere combe, coombe Bry valley Barcombe ("Valley of the Britons"), Farncombe, Ilfracombe, Salcombe, Coombe ...
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The following is a partial list of adjectival forms of place names in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these places. Note: Demonyms are given in plural forms.
Here's why State Street doesn't have a NE or SE suffix like every other street, avenue, drive, place, way or lane east of the Willamette in Salem.
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
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