Where do Paris Metro stations get their names?
Naming conventions on existing systems could be neater (shorter, more accurate, with less ambiguity); while newly built ones could use…
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London Overground to be split into separate lines and renamed
TfL will spend £4m on reorganising and rebranding the London overground into different sections.
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Winnipeg proposes new Indigenous street names, but what’s behind claims they’re too hard to pronounce?
Some have claimed the proposed new Indigenous names for Winnipeg streets are too difficult to pronounce. But what does it…
Here are the seven worst city nicknames and slogans in the US
The US has a penchant for adding taglines and nicknames to anything and everything it possibly can.
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Ukrainian Heroes Street: The ideology behind street name changes
Across eastern Europe, the addresses of Russian embassies are being changed as a form of protest against the war in…
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The West Midlands. It’s one of those phrases where everyone knows what it means, but also no-one knows what it…
ByWhich European cities have the most different names in different languages?
When you realise, aged ten in a museum or railway station, that other places shockingly have names for themselves, different…
ByHow many Waterloo stations are there in the world?
Not a lot of people know this, but although it takes nearly two hours to get from Liverpool Lime Street…
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