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A Good Address?

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A Story in the London Times about research on the links between social class and street names:


"Living in a Common is not so common, but a Path can go wrong way, reports our correspondent on a study of road names

"Using certain words has long been said to indicate your social class. Now researchers have suggested that the name of your road is equally revealing."

See how your own address rates, or not:

https://www.originsinfo.com/StreetNames/Default.aspx


Mine did pretty poorly in the rankings... but then my street names are uncommon and thus won't make any rankings where frequency matters (the results would have been equally low if poverty rather than wealth, urban instead of rural, etc. were used)

I wonder how American Street names might rate....
 
Hmm, my old home in Wales....

Frequency: 7
Rank On Status: 94
Rank On Rurality: 2
Rank On Old Houses: 10

So it's an ancient rural dump then? Very interesting.
 
I think they have trouble with Welsh names, some of them, anyway....

I live on "Keystone Quadrant"; and there are only 216 "Quadrants" in the country (out of 745K different named streets), and its used mostly in the west and northeast of Scotland. I cna't imagine the analysis is particularly useful for so few instances. I'd suspect some of the Welsh examples would be rare too.

There are only 306 "Keystones" too, so I suspect its unique- not like "Main Street"... and certainly not "Coronation Street" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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