{"id":9929,"date":"2011-04-15T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:19:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:19:03","slug":"street-avenue-crescent-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/04\/15\/street-avenue-crescent-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Street, Avenue, Crescent, Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9930\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/04\/15\/street-avenue-crescent-parade\/waskaganish-street\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9930\" title=\"waskaganish street\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/04\/waskaganish-street-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/04\/waskaganish-street-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/04\/waskaganish-street-1024x851.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/04\/waskaganish-street.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>We are all familiar with terms like street, avenue and crescent, but across the country there are apparently 165 different words to identify the roads we call home. A friend who works on the back-end of a federal party website recently forwarded this list (with some of his favs highlighted), gleaned from a drop-down menu used for voters to identify their riding. Just for fun, here they are:<\/div>\n<div><!--more--><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Abbey<\/div>\n<div>Access<\/div>\n<div>Acres<\/div>\n<div>Aire<\/div>\n<div>All\u00e9e<\/div>\n<div>Alley<\/div>\n<div>Autoroute<\/div>\n<div>Avenue<\/div>\n<div>Barrage<\/div>\n<div>Bay<\/div>\n<div>Beach<\/div>\n<div>Bend<\/div>\n<div>Bloc<\/div>\n<div>Block<\/div>\n<div>Boulevard<\/div>\n<div>Bourg<\/div>\n<div>Brook<\/div>\n<div>By-pass<\/div>\n<div>Byway<\/div>\n<div>Campus<\/div>\n<div>Cape<\/div>\n<div>Carr\u00e9<\/div>\n<div>Carrefour<\/div>\n<div>Centre<\/div>\n<div>Cercle<\/div>\n<div>Chase<\/div>\n<div>Chemin<\/div>\n<div>Circle<\/div>\n<div>Circuit<\/div>\n<div>Close<\/div>\n<div>Common<\/div>\n<div>Concession<\/div>\n<div>Corners<\/div>\n<div>C\u00f4te<\/div>\n<div>Cour<\/div>\n<div>Cours<\/div>\n<div>Court<\/div>\n<div>Cove<\/div>\n<div>Crescent<\/div>\n<div>Crest<\/div>\n<div>Croft<\/div>\n<div>Croissant<\/div>\n<div>Crossing<\/div>\n<div>Crossroads<\/div>\n<div>Cul-de-sac<\/div>\n<div>Dale<\/div>\n<div>Dell<\/div>\n<div>Desserte<\/div>\n<div>Diversion<\/div>\n<div>Downs<\/div>\n<div>Drive<\/div>\n<div>Droit  de passage<\/div>\n<div>\u00c9changeur<\/div>\n<div>End<\/div>\n<div>Esplanade<\/div>\n<div>Estates<\/div>\n<div>Expressway<\/div>\n<div>Extension<\/div>\n<div>Farm<\/div>\n<div>Field<\/div>\n<div>Forest<\/div>\n<div>Forest  Service Road<\/div>\n<div>Freeway<\/div>\n<div>Front<\/div>\n<div>Gardens<\/div>\n<div>Gate<\/div>\n<div>Glade<\/div>\n<div>Glen<\/div>\n<div>Green<\/div>\n<div>Grounds<\/div>\n<div>Grove<\/div>\n<div>Harbour<\/div>\n<div>Haven<\/div>\n<div>Heath<\/div>\n<div>Heights<\/div>\n<div>Highlands<\/div>\n<div>Highway<\/div>\n<div>Hill<\/div>\n<div>Hollow<\/div>\n<div>\u00cele<\/div>\n<div>Impasse<\/div>\n<div>Inlet<\/div>\n<div>Island<\/div>\n<div>Key<\/div>\n<div>Knoll<\/div>\n<div>Landing<\/div>\n<div>Lane<\/div>\n<div>Laneway<\/div>\n<div>Limits<\/div>\n<div>Line<\/div>\n<div>Link<\/div>\n<div>Lookout<\/div>\n<div>Loop<\/div>\n<div>Mall<\/div>\n<div>Manor<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color: #f60615;\">Maze<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Meadow<\/div>\n<div>Mews<\/div>\n<div>Mont\u00e9e<\/div>\n<div>Moor<\/div>\n<div>Mount<\/div>\n<div>Mountain<\/div>\n<div>Orchard<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color: #f60615;\">Parade<\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Parc<\/div>\n<div>Park<\/div>\n<div>Parkway<\/div>\n<div>Passage<\/div>\n<div>Path<\/div>\n<div>Pathway<\/div>\n<div>Peak<\/div>\n<div>Pines<\/div>\n<div>Place<\/div>\n<div>Plateau<\/div>\n<div>Plaza<\/div>\n<div>Point<\/div>\n<div>Pointe<\/div>\n<div>Port<\/div>\n<div>Private<\/div>\n<div>Promenade<\/div>\n<div>Quai<\/div>\n<div>Quay<\/div>\n<div>Ramp<\/div>\n<div>Rang<\/div>\n<div>Range<\/div>\n<div>Reach<\/div>\n<div>Ridge<\/div>\n<div>Right  of way<\/div>\n<div>Rise<\/div>\n<div>Road<\/div>\n<div>Rond point<\/div>\n<div>Route<\/div>\n<div>Row<\/div>\n<div>Rue<\/div>\n<div>Ruelle<\/div>\n<div>Ruisseau<\/div>\n<div>Run<\/div>\n<div>Section<\/div>\n<div>Sentier<\/div>\n<div>Sideroad<\/div>\n<div>Square<\/div>\n<div>Street<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #f60615;\"><strong>Stroll<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Subdivision<\/div>\n<div>Terrace<\/div>\n<div>Terrasse<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color: #f60615;\">Thicket<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #f60615;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Towers<\/div>\n<div>Townline<\/div>\n<div>Trace<\/div>\n<div>Trail<\/div>\n<div>Trunk<\/div>\n<div>Turnabout<\/div>\n<div>Vale<\/div>\n<div>Via<\/div>\n<div>View<\/div>\n<div>Village<\/div>\n<div>Villas<\/div>\n<div>Vista<\/div>\n<div>Voie<\/div>\n<div>Walk<\/div>\n<div>Way<\/div>\n<div>Wharf<\/div>\n<div>Wood<\/div>\n<div>Wynd<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Which makes me wonder whether we may simply make up more as we go along?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all familiar with terms like street, avenue and crescent, but across the country there are apparently 165 different words to identify the roads we call home. 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