Talk:avenue
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Rfv-sense: "(urban toponymy) A street, the streets that run perpendicular to those called "streets"."
Am I the only confused one here? --Robbie SWE (talk) 19:14, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Robbie SWE: It's specific to New-York, apparently. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 19:17, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Be that as it may, but for a non-New Yorker, I just don't understand the current sense. It needs to be reworded and more importantly, it needs quotes (Kiwima, work your magic!). --Robbie SWE (talk) 19:26, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- Is this a request for verification (which I think is unnecessary based on common usage) or a request for cleanup? The use of grid patterns where "street"s go one way and "avenue"s the other is not unique to New York. Kiwima (talk) 20:52, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
cited Kiwima (talk) 00:04, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 20:49, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
The vowel in the middle[edit]
For me (Estuary English) the second vowel in this word is, I think, /ɪ/ and not the schwa. I checked Chambers and they have no such pronunciation. Just an observation. Equinox ◑ 21:08, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
I don't know if this is a "misspelling" (I reject that anything can be misspelled in English) or merely an obsolete alternative form, or even if it is a legitimate alternative spelling that deserves mention- but there seems to be some basis: [1] "neither are there any Advenues found leading to the Monarchy" (second full paragraph) [2] nothing to guard his fhips, and man the Town of Blavet ( whofe advenue, which was very ftraight, he had cut off j withal, --Geographyinitiative (talk) 19:49, 28 August 2021 (UTC)