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• funny street names (Score:1)

  by rjbs (4671)

  Well, at least one is Portland, I suppose? I seem to remember something cute like that going on with street names.
  
  Also, while walking around OSCON, someone laughed at my pronunciation of some important street name which, apparently, everyone who isn't from Portland mispronounced. What is it? (I really don't remember.)
  
  I was also mocked for mentioning the WILL-a-met river.

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  • Re:funny street names (Score:2)

    by merlyn (47)

    No, the Alphabetical sequence in Portland begins with Burnside (Couch, Davis, Everett, Flanders [doh!], Glisan, Hoyt, Irving, Johnson, Kearney, Lovejoy, Marshall, Northrup, Overton, Pettygrove, Quimby, Raleigh, Savier, Thurman, Upshur, Vaughn, Wilson). Good guess though.

    As for funny pronounciations, perhaps it was "couch", which is pronounced "Cooooch", apparently to honor the person it was named after. Apparently, these names come from local historical figures.

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    • Re:funny street names (Score:1)

      by rjbs (4671)

      Couch! Good spotting. (Also, Quimby is another good Simpsons reference street.)

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      • Re:funny street names (Score:1)

        by jhorwitz (4227) <reversethis-{gro.gnihsams} {ta} {ffej}> on 2004.01.19 20:24 (#27551) Homepage Journal

        as is lovejoy (the reverend). i smell a conspiracy.

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