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Homeowners oppose street name chosen by iwi, saying the 17-letter name is too long (i.stuff.co.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I guess they didn’t want people to end up calling it P Road

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not though? Do you not participate on the global markets?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Having long street names in another country is irrelevant because this is an nz community. No one is going to say oh I guess they named a street flebeflabflopper in Denmark so that makes these peoples complaints null and void.

There's plenty of maori street names so that's not the issue here.