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[Moldy Rutabaga]

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[Manner of Speaking]

Actually I think they have a point, to a certain extent. When you see the way developers name new housing projects, streets, etc., in the suburbs in the West, they are all the same vaguely Anglo-Saxon-sounding mush. They homogenize the suburbs and remove all sense of place and distinctiveness to an area or a neighborhood, when often it's the sense of distinctiveness about a place that makes it an attractive place to live, work, or visit.

Sometimes the names don't even make sense. There are several places in the US and Canada named "Ridge Valley", even though a ridge is shaped like this ^ and a valley is shaped like this v . You can't have a ridge and a valley in the same place. It's called a plain --- .

[Leslie Cheswyck]