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Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 4. Street Names. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language |
 | | Thus, Oxford street, London, becomes the Bayswater road, High street, Holland Park avenue, Goldhawke road and finally the Oxford road to the westward, and High Holborn, Holborn viaduct, Newgate street, Cheapside, the Poultry, Cornhill and Leadenhall street to the eastward. |
 | | Next to the numbering and lettering of streets, a fashion apparently set up by Major Pierre-Charles LEnfants plans for Washington, the most noticeable feature of American street nomenclature, as opposed to that of England, is the extensive use of such designations as avenue, boulevard, drive and speedway. |
 | | The principal street of a small town, in America, is almost always Main street; in England it is as invariably High street, usually with the definite article before High. |
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