I guess they didn’t want people to end up calling it P Road

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Or something like Whangaparaoa road clutches pearls.

Also eyjafjallajökull is just fine if you’re Icelandic.

Ditto every street name in Wales.

Papakangahorohoro (from memory thank you very much) is easy.

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Ditto every street name in Wales.

You should come to Aberdare, most of our street names are simple English words 🙈

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Aberdare

I admit I was making a poorly informed guess about street names in Wales.

Wales came to mind as NZ’s currently rolling out bi-lingual road signs. Wales is held up as a model of successful deployment. A certain demographic are unhappy about this.

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It’s all good. It just made me laugh when I was reading your post, surrounded by streets with names like Brook Street, George Street, Market Street, Wind Street, and Hill Street :D

Oh, and ignore the whiners. Our national park just changed its name from The Brecon Beacons to Bannau Brecheiniog, and I had an English woman telling me that it was discriminatory to a Welsh man she knows who can’t speak Welsh…

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