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[QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2258559, member: 591"]
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.
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