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Double-Take

Posted in Language, Oddities by Greg Ross on March 3rd, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Avenue_Road_Sign.jpg

In Britain this wouldn’t be redundant — in British English an avenue is a row of trees.

Unfortunately, that’s not so in Toronto, where Avenue Road is a major thoroughfare.

Local journalist Robert Fulford called it “an identity crisis with pavement.”