# Where you live: different names for "street" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945 "2011-06-26T21:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/41 "2011-06-28T21:55:16Z")
> [@suetonius](#): > > In the North East of England, ‘Wynd’ is used for a street that isn’t straight but in the rest of the UK (possible exception of Scotland) you’d never come across this usage. ‘Chare’ is a lane. ‘Grove’ is upmarket. Yes you would. There’s a wiend (same word) in Wigan; actually, it’s the oldest street. Wigan also has gates. Anywhere the Vikings landed you’ll find gates and wiends/wynds. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/42 "2011-06-28T22:01:55Z")
In my hometown in Ohio we had two places, right next to each other, called “courts.” The were, in fact, circles with maybe 8 or 9 smallish homes around them. I’ve never seen that exact usage for the word “court” anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/43 "2011-06-28T22:29:27Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > A lot of the streets in my town are Spanish in origin, but they usually Street or Avenue. My own street, let’s call it Del Perro to be slightly secretive, has 3 versions in town. > > Del Perro Avenue. > Salida Del Perro. > Calle Del Perro. One I’ve also seen in SoCal is **Paseo** ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/44 "2011-06-28T23:05:14Z")
I just found a ‘Steep’ in town today on the way to the pub. Interesting variant on ‘Hill’, not seen it before. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/45 "2011-06-28T23:34:34Z")
\*\*Caminito \*\*seems to be North County San Diego’s term for a common driveway in a townhouse complex. It’s nice not to have apartment numbers, but sort of a pain to have to spell c-a-m-i-n-i-t-o to customer service reps, especially over the phone. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/46 "2011-06-29T11:52:52Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > [hijack potential subset of the OP]: give names for dead ends, like cul-de-sac [/hpsotop] In my experience, cul-de-sacs are almost always called “Court.” True dead-end streets, however, don’t seem to have a special name, just “Street” or “Drive” or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/47 "2011-06-29T16:08:26Z")
Walk ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/48 "2011-06-29T16:26:41Z")
This Sporcle quiz called [Street Suffixes](http://www.sporcle.com/games/streetsuffix.php) covers the 146 USPS-approved street-name suffixes in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/49 "2011-06-30T02:12:49Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Rue I wonder if there is a Rue McLanahan. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/50 "2011-06-30T03:20:37Z")
The suburbs of Buffalo have many streets with “Lea” in the name. Some are “[name] Lea Drive” or “[name] Lea Avenue”, but there’s a few that are just “[name] Lea”. Other odd suffixes in Buffalo: Yard, Square (for a cul-de-sac), Walk, Landing, Path and Gate. One suburb has a “Rue Madeline”. There’s also a lot of “The [Something]” streets; The Common, The Spur, The Paddock, and so on. Unlike most American cities, Buffalo and its burbs don’t have any rules for street name suffixes. When I lived in New Mexico, it wasn’t uncommon to see a “Calle de [Spanish word]” intersect with a “[English word] Street”. The city where I worked had a street naming law that prohibited cross-lingual street name duplication; there couldn’t be streets named both “Hill” and “Loma”, for example. Chicago has Midway Plaisance. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/51 "2011-06-30T04:16:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Calle > Avenida > Via > Carretera Bulevar Cuesta Callejón other possible adress types: Plaza (square) Barrio (which the damn databases don’t accept; it’s a “group of houses”, not quite the same as a street but too old for the next one to have become common) Urbanización switching languages, a few I know in Basque: Kalea (street) Etorbidea (the same location will be called Avenida or Bulevar in Spanish) Auzoa (lit. “group”, in Spanish the same can be called Barrio or Urbanización) ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/52 "2011-06-30T17:40:04Z")
I’m pretty sure there’s only one [Orlieu](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bridgwater,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&ll=51.127246,-3.008969&spn=0.000965,0.003122&sll=53.546,-2.630186&sspn=0.000921,0.003122&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.127349,-3.00879&panoid=85e6FRnSWvYrVv77JblUJg&cbp=12,151.69,,0,-8.58) 🙂 That’s in England, but there are lots of odd ones (to English eyes) in Wales: Ffordd, Heol (both meaning road), Stryd (street), Cwrt (court), Bryn (hill) and so on. Of course, just because a name has an English suffix it doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily be able to [pronounce it](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Gwernllwynchwyth+Road,+Swansea,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&ll=51.662354,-3.885716&spn=0.003813,0.012488&sll=51.662254,-3.88562&sspn=0.003847,0.012488&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.662253,-3.885621&panoid=rbS1OJocTEL3vul7CEXhbQ&cbp=12,55.32,,1,15.77)… ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/53 "2011-06-30T17:47:54Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > In Canada, I saw “rue \ street” Well, that’s completely the norm on bilingual signs. The French name of the street is “rue \” and the English name is “\ street.” So, they just run it together. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/54 "2011-06-30T17:53:03Z")
We live on \_\_\_\_ Cove. There are no bodies of water in the area. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945/55 "2011-06-30T18:03:02Z")
I live on a Crescent that’s a dead end. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-different-names-for-street/586945.md?page=2)