As far as I can tell, there is no other street with the same name in the entire country. And, it’s only two words, eight letters total.
I just thought that is unusual.
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I’m gonna guess …Lane lane?
No, it’s weird, but not that weird.
Best as I can determine, it’s a malformed Esperanto phrase.
Or, it could be nothing.
The only Esperanto I know is from a very old Mad magazine article called something like “How to Talk Dirty in Esperanto.” It is “Via patrino fikas bestojn,” which I shall not translate as it’s not your street name.
I live in German-speaking Switzerland, where people speak Swiss German as their native language. The written language is Swiss standard German, but this means a lot of Swiss German does not have a standard written form.
My street name, as spelled, is unique. There are other places in Germany and Austria, but with other variations, which are written according to standard German rules.
So I would tend to set the blame on a spoken dialect.
My street name is also unique.
When you’re entering an address for something on a website in the UK, where it’s matching with a database, the entry form broadly comes in two different kinds; ‘type your postcode and select’, which gives a list of 20 or so houses for you to pick from, or ‘start typing your address..’ and it gives you options to choose from as you type.
I used to hate this second type, because at various addressed I’ve lived in several really common street names and in several towns sharing their name with multiple other towns, so I’d need to type almost the complete address before mine came up as an option on the list.
Now it’s just the house number and the first 5 letters of the street name and it autocompletes. It’s great. Saves me seconds.
And I used to live on Zamenhof Street!
(Named after L.L. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto).
Got a Barking Dog Rd in the county I work for. Guessing that’s unique.
I’m guessing a lot of New Orleans street names are unique. My favorite is Mystery Street.
My street name is not unique in itself, but you’d be surprised how many people to ask how to spell it (it’s a country name).
But it has no modifier. It’s just “Smith”. Not Smith Street, Smith Drive, Smith Lane, Smith Circle, Smith Blvd. Just “Smith”. Confuses the heck out of delivery people. Thanks, Mesa!
I used to work on Broadway and 20th St. in Manhattan. One time, I was giving a client our address, and he asked, “XXX Broadway? So, is that Broadway Street, or Broadway Avenue…?”; nonplussed, I said, “No… just Broadway.” What a weird question.
(And yes, before you say anything - I know that it was originally “Broad Way”).
Could be worse- there’s a town I used to visit occasionally called ‘Street’. Featuring roads including ‘Street Drove’, and ‘High Street, Street’, as well as ‘Street Road’ in nearby Glastonbury.
Sadly there is no Street Street, as someone had a minor attack of sanity.
Yes, it does mess up databases.
I too live on a street with no trailing type identifier (road, lane, etc.). But the street name is a two word name. Which buffaloes a few people and websites. Fortunately I don’t live in Buffalo or who knows what would happen?
Thankfully modern IT design is slowly getting less anal retentive about assuming little dedicated cubby holes for each component of an address according to whatever layout was typical wherever the developer / designer grew up.
A couple of blasts from the past.
Interesting/Clever Street and Subdivision Names! - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board
I get this on Google Maps from the number and the first 3 letters of our street, but I don’t know how wide an area this is good for. Based on other addresses I have put into Maps, it might be just the SF Bay area.
That was from National Lampoon, I still have that issue. How to talk dirty in Esperanto
I still remember this phrase: Estas mia konjekto ke via patrino estas ne strango al cirkauprenoj de hejmaj dorlotoj kaj fojnejokoriay bestoj.
I also live on a street that is apparently the only street by that name.
Though by some weirdnesses the straight street is broken into 3 isolated parts.
In one section, the road didn’t go through despite being on the maps since the 1800s. Somehow two property owners have the section.
Then a divided state highway cut off the final short section.
This is all in a stretch of only 2350 feet.
The street is named for the creek that acts as one of the town borders. It appears to be an interpretation of an older Lenape* name. Associated with a type of oyster that was a key resource for the Lenape.
- Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands whose traditional homeland included parts of eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and southern New York
Pretty sure ours is. It’s named for the creek we live on, which, in turn, is named for a county in Ireland. I’m pretty sure the creek is uniquely named (edit: googling the county in Ireland shares it’s name with town, which shares name with a river, in English at least, but it’s a river not a creek), so the street is too.
Same for the street where I grew up - if you google it, all that comes up is our street. I’m going to assume it was made up by the developers - maybe a combination of initials of their kids or something. Anyway, it’s perfect to use as part of a password. Add a few numbers and special characters, and it’s pretty dang secure.
Speaking of made-up names from combined initials, my dad did that to name the little aluminum boat we had back in the 60s: Lomijalakateth. The name is bigger than the boat was!
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