Yes, I only ever heard the country name as “nee-zhair”, in part to distinguish it from the river name. And Nigeria.
Just because it’s weird, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
There is more than just one town with a road named East Westbrook Road.
In Albuquerque there is a Southeast Circle NW, a Northeast Circle SW, and a Northwest Circle NW all right next to each other and intersecting.
If I ever have to drive that intersection, I will dissolve into a puff of pure nothingness. At least my brain. Makes my head hurt now only reading.
Dallas has an East Northwest highway
If we’re going that direction (no pun intended), Oakland/Berkeley has 80 East that is simultaneously 580 West. Of course, it goes mostly northward.
If you are on the main street in Boone, NC, you are simultaneously traveling north on US421 and south on US321. But physically, you are going east. Unless you do a U-turn and all those directions are reversed.
That’s the fun of highways. They get named for their overall geographic pattern in relation to other highways and such, but they intersect and overlap at cities and towns, naturally, because they are roads. Their purpose is to connect and cross and intertwine in places so people can go to different places.
Also, though the overall connector may run east and west, any particular stretch can run any direction based upon local terrain, the historical layout of the towns as they were first built, etc.
The whole “highway named East that runs north and south” is actually sensible because the name is to differentiate between branches of a highway after it splits.
E.g. I-35 running north and south splits just north of Dallas and Fort Worth. A branch runs to each metroplex. So they are the East and West branches of I-35.
The Harlem River and East River aren’t rivers either.
I wonder about the logic of using that name, given that “Nova” in English means “massive explosion”.
Would have been a problem if it had exploded. But in latin it just means new, like in Nova Scotia
The hypothetical new call letters are in use by a pirate station on Dentons.
And then there’s Toronto, which has a street named Avenue Road.
And on the other side of the family, the Battenbergs changed their name to Mountbatten.
Which was a simple translation. Berg means “mountain” in German.
When told about the name changes, the Kaiser supposedly said that he wanted to see a performance of The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Willy II was a megalomaniac buffoon, but seemingly he sometimes had a sense of humor.
I believe it was a bit of an off-hand sense of humor.
We were having the interminable computer systems standards meetings many years ago at the beginning of wide area networks and connecting multiple locations into one big domain. (Switching to Windows server from Novell). We spent far too much time on whether people should have the simple first-initial-last-name setup, and I had to point out that regardless of standards, “Sam Hitchcock can have whatever other userid he wants…”
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In South Auckland there is a park named after RAF leader Sir Keith Park. It is just Keith park.