UK town bans "Cracknuts Lane" & other streets

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No you have a steert called gay street and an ave. called gay ave. or is that west gay ave/street?

In North america, streets and avenues are the two most common names for grid-system streets. They are all quite literally streets, so calling what is called an avenue a street is quite fine, because the avenue is only a convention, as opposed to in good old England where an avenue is an actual approach to a house or village.

True, but have you also ever noticed that a whole lot of German words sound like naughty English ones? So much so, like I actually wondered if the English did some of their own words that way on purpose. But of course, that'd have to be a pretty ancient conspiracy. I mean, just say a couple sentences in German to a group of English-only people, and you're likely to make at least one person feel that you've thrown a personal insult in there somewhere. They've got syllables that sound like "hell", "damn", and a few of the naughtier words I'm not even allowed to write here.
Basil Fawlty to visiting Germans about their strange-sounding speech: "Oh, German! I'm sorry, I thought there was something wrong with you." I would enjoy learning to read and understand German, as it would allow me to greatly expand my book collection to a lot of really interesting ones I can't currently read, but I wouldn't personally enjoy speaking it. No offense to any native-tongued German speakers here.