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Prompted by a show on the local Public Media outlet -
1 - road names are supposed to be pronounced in the way the person they are named after pronounced their name. With exceptions:
- Plumer is alternately pronounced "plume-er" and "plumb-er" by various folks in town - the short "u" folks are correct.
- Houghton is pronounced almost 100% "how"-ton, unfortunately, it is actually "HO" -ton, and almost no one pronounces it right. But that's how the Houghton family pronounces it.
- Ina - the exception - is pronounced correctly "I"-na by everyone, but the person it was named after was someone who pronounced her first name "ee-nah". She wrote letters to the newspaper to complain about the way "her" street was pronounced. Never-the-less, it is officially Ina with the long I.
2 - we have stravenues in Tucson. It is a unique thing to Tucson with an official post office abbreviation, no less, and there are not a lot of them. It is the designation for a number of streets in the greater "downtown" area that run diagonally between streets and avenues, primarily due to train tracks. For example, "Cherrybell Stravenue" would be a valid street in Tucson.
1 - road names are supposed to be pronounced in the way the person they are named after pronounced their name. With exceptions:
- Plumer is alternately pronounced "plume-er" and "plumb-er" by various folks in town - the short "u" folks are correct.
- Houghton is pronounced almost 100% "how"-ton, unfortunately, it is actually "HO" -ton, and almost no one pronounces it right. But that's how the Houghton family pronounces it.
- Ina - the exception - is pronounced correctly "I"-na by everyone, but the person it was named after was someone who pronounced her first name "ee-nah". She wrote letters to the newspaper to complain about the way "her" street was pronounced. Never-the-less, it is officially Ina with the long I.
2 - we have stravenues in Tucson. It is a unique thing to Tucson with an official post office abbreviation, no less, and there are not a lot of them. It is the designation for a number of streets in the greater "downtown" area that run diagonally between streets and avenues, primarily due to train tracks. For example, "Cherrybell Stravenue" would be a valid street in Tucson.