American Language (2011)
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OTHER PROPER NAMES “Such a locality as at the corner of Avenue H and Twenty-third street.” says W. W. Crane, “is about as distinctly American as Algonkian and Iroquois names like Mississippi and Saratoga.”175 Rud-yard Kipling, in his “American Notes,”176 gave testimony to the strangeness with which the number-names, the phrase the corner of, the word block, and the custom of omitting street fell upon the ear of a Britisher of a generation or more ago. He quotes with amazement certain directions ...given to him on his arrival in San Francisco from India: “Go six blocks north to [the] corner of Geary and Markey [Market?]; then walk around till you strike [the] corner of Sutter and Sixteenth.”177 The English almost always add the word street (or road or place or avenue) when speaking of a thoroughfare: such a phrase as Oxford and New Bond would strike them as incongruous.178 The American custom of numbering and lettering streets is usually ascribed by English writers to sheer poverty of invention, but of late some of them have borne witness to its convenience.
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OTHER PROPER NAMES “Such a locality as at the corner of Avenue H and Twenty-third street.” says W. W. Crane, “is about as distinctly American as Algonkian and Iroquois names like Mississippi and Saratoga.”175 Rud-yard Kipling, in his “American Notes,”176 gave testimony to the strangeness with which the number-names, the phrase the corner of, the word block, and the custom of omitting street fell upon the ear of a Britisher of a generation or more ago. He quotes with amazement certain directions ...given to him on his arrival in San Francisco from India: “Go six blocks north to [the] corner of Geary and Markey [Market?]; then walk around till you strike [the] corner of Sutter and Sixteenth.”177 The English almost always add the word street (or road or place or avenue) when speaking of a thoroughfare: such a phrase as Oxford and New Bond would strike them as incongruous.178 The American custom of numbering and lettering streets is usually ascribed by English writers to sheer poverty of invention, but of late some of them have borne witness to its convenience.
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