Shortest road name?

[agentsteel53]

Could be...as written, isn't it saying that only two words in total may be used to devise all of the road names in the area? Let's see, we've got "Cat Hollow" and "Hollow Cat"...uh oh, ran out of possibilities!

I actually have a friend who is a proofreader for municipal codes and would likely have caught that.

there's also "Cat Cat" and "Hollow Hollow", and that is assuming that those two words need to form a two-word result string.  without that assumption, we'd have such excellent road names as "Cat Hollow Cat" and "Hollow Hollow Cat Cat Libertador General Hollow".  (they had to let that one in, for obvious reasons.)

[kphoger]

I should note that in the Midwest, frequently small towns drop all road identifiers. You'll come in and see "D," "C," "B," "A" in order on street blade signs. Can't really get shorter than that.

got any evidence of formal US Postal Service proscription of this? 

yes, I probably could mail a letter to "11660 A, Springfield" and it will get there, but is that correct?

It depends on what the street is actually called.  If the name is D, rather than D Street, then who cares what proscription the US Postal Service has?

Does anyone have a specific example?

[kphoger]

Roadway names shall be comprised of no more than two words.

grammar fail.  fucking elected officials.

I am the farthest thing from a language prescriptivist.

The irony was not lost on me.

it's not poor grammar in general which I dislike ... but rather, the use of poor grammar by those who theoretically are supposed to be experts at writing all the fine-print stuff which trips up ordinary folks all the time. 

Oh.  Shoot.  Guess I should have read that before looking up your three-month-old post, then, huh?

[agentsteel53]

it's not poor grammar in general which I dislike ... but rather, the use of poor grammar by those who theoretically are supposed to be experts at writing all the fine-print stuff which trips up ordinary folks all the time. 

Oh.  Shoot.  Guess I should have read that before looking up your three-month-old post, then, huh?

probably.

I will hold elected officials to a human standard when they step down from office and return to the species.