Richard J. wrote:
Nick Leverton wrote:
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Jon wrote:

the silly tendency [towards] road names with no suffix at all,
making ordinary suburban streets sound as if they are rural hamlets
too small to have street names as such.

Or alternatively as if they are in the dodgier estates of Bracknell !

Or alternatively as if they are in central London, such as Piccadilly,
Strand, Poultry, Kingsway, Queensway, Holborn, Cheapside, Cornhill,
Houndsditch, Millbank.

I blame Boris! Only a city in which he's Mayor could have silly names like
that.