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Old 04-03-2008, 06:22 AM
 
Location: Chambers County
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I enjoy driving around new subdivisions, looking at the new homes going up although I am not in the market to buy. I have noticed there is a trend to name the new streets in ways that defy all common sense. Some are hard to pronounce, with difficult spellings, and would be virtually impossible to correctly communicate over the phone. Why is this?

I used to live on Bois D'Arc St., (pronounced "Bo Dark") and well over half my mail understandably had misspellings. Also, I noticed silly names, like "Dell Dale" for example. Trying to be cute, I guess, but will certainly cause confusion with that spelling. Your thoughts?
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Old 04-03-2008, 06:42 AM
 
Location: North of DFW
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Here in the Tyler area...we have streets that have 3 different names....example:
Jim Hogg Rd, also known as South St., also known as CR431. Depending on who you talk to is how they give you the address!
My personal favorite is Easy St.
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Old 04-03-2008, 07:15 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Anyone been to Lake Jackson lately? When I was there, they were all 'Ways' (instead of streets or lanes), and they were named 'This Way' and 'That Way' and 'Any Way' etc, etc.
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Old 04-03-2008, 08:47 AM
 
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I enjoy driving around new subdivisions, looking at the new homes going up although I am not in the market to buy. I have noticed there is a trend to name the new streets in ways that defy all common sense. Some are hard to pronounce, with difficult spellings, and would be virtually impossible to correctly communicate over the phone. Why is this?

I used to live on Bois D'Arc St., (pronounced "Bo Dark") and well over half my mail understandably had misspellings. Also, I noticed silly names, like "Dell Dale" for example. Trying to be cute, I guess, but will certainly cause confusion with that spelling. Your thoughts?
Um, Bois d'Arc is a tree native to Texas. Hardly silly.

Re: bois d'arc in Texas (http://www.dallashistory.org/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=4215 - broken link)

Noted for its many uses, the bois d' arc tree is an important part of the history and folklore of Northeast Texas. Bois d'arc has found its way into the place names of Hunt County and Northeast Texas. Almost every city in North Texas has a bois d'arc street. Bois d'Arc Springs, 17 miles north of Bonham, feeds into the Bois d' Arc Creek, that flows into the Red River at the northeastern corner of Fannin-Lamar county line. Bonham, the county seat of Fannin County, was first called Bois d' Arc.
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Old 04-03-2008, 10:17 AM
 
Location: Corpus Christi, TX
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In our new development all the streets are old testament books of the bible, i.e, Isiah Court, Hosea Court, Ezekiel Court, etc.
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Old 04-03-2008, 02:49 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Don't forget "New Road" in Waco!
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Old 04-03-2008, 03:27 PM
 
Location: SW France
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http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g290/Jezer57/DSCN2280-1.jpg (broken link)

Never got a photo of Hollerin Women Creek near SA.
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Old 04-03-2008, 03:29 PM
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Location: Suburban Dallas
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Anyone been to Lake Jackson lately? When I was there, they were all 'Ways' (instead of streets or lanes), and they were named 'This Way' and 'That Way' and 'Any Way' etc, etc.
Hey, now, that's an innovative approach, Trainwreck. I highly endorse that idea, actually. It's fresh and different. Oh, outsiders might think it's confusing, but other than that.......
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Old 04-03-2008, 03:35 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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I'm very familiar with those streets in Lake Jackson. When I was a teenager, I lived in Brazoria and my dad lived in Lake Jackson. We'd go spend every other weekend with him, and if any of my friends came to visit while I was there I'd tell them to take those streets. For a while they thought I was making it up.
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Old 04-03-2008, 03:41 PM
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Location: Suburban Dallas
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Never got a photo of Hollerin Women Creek near SA.
Stay tuned. Someone might have one.

By the way, in the stupid category are generic names such as Hotel Drive or Convention Center Blvd. Also, Sports Street comes to mind. Those ideas are just boring as heck, over the top, and way too obvious. You need something a little less obvious. People could have come up with better, more creative names than those. I'd much rather see less generic names when naming streets.

In the silly category, I found one in Flower Mound that was quite hilarious. It's called Roads End. No joke.
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