Continuing to talk to myself: we shouldn't forget that _Portway_ is recorded in AS times, presumably with initial stress.
RC
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Sent: 05 December 2011 11:02
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There is a problem with Jeremy's suggestion if the stress-patterns of Ermine Street, Watling Street and Ryknild Street are original. They go somewhere, though not to a named location unless you accept "tribal" designations as places (in the cases of the first two).
Richard
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Sent: 05 December 2011 10:57
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Dear All,
There seems to be a correlation of stress-pattern with semantics here.
Road and Lane are mostly used in early names for highways going
somewhere, whereas Street is used for routes within the settlement. At
Swaffham I noticed that Lynn Road, Brandon Road and Norfolk Road turned
into Lynn Street, London Street and Mangate Street as you got within the
town, even though they're projections of the same line.
Jeremy Harte
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A perennial unsolved problem. The only exception known to me is Magdalen
STREET in Norwich, which appears to be general rather than contrastive.
(Or used to be. I haven't followed it up with native speakers recently.)
Richard
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Sent: 05 December 2011 09:47
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Why do we say 'South Street, but North 'Road?
Keith
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