@[email protected] to Aotearoa / New [email protected] • 1 year agoHomeowners oppose street name chosen by iwi, saying the 17-letter name is too longi.stuff.co.nzexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkHomeowners oppose street name chosen by iwi, saying the 17-letter name is too longi.stuff.co.nz@[email protected] to Aotearoa / New [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square56fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenickAlinkEnglish7•1 year agoThat name is easy enough. I think people are over-reacting. Karangahape Road is fine and with English names not a single person in Wellington pronounces Majoribanks Street the same way (in fact, here are five streets in Wellington that are commonly mispronounced, all of which are English: https://wellington.govt.nz/news-and-events/news-and-information/our-wellington/2021/12/friday-five-street-names-mispronounced)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 year agoIsn’t it almost always referred to as K road though?
minus-squarenickAlinkEnglish0•1 year agoNot really, there’s been a push for people to use its full name and last time I was in Auckland everyone I spoke to did.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoThe fact that people need a “push” to not shorten the name doesn’t help your argument much.
That name is easy enough. I think people are over-reacting. Karangahape Road is fine and with English names not a single person in Wellington pronounces Majoribanks Street the same way (in fact, here are five streets in Wellington that are commonly mispronounced, all of which are English: https://wellington.govt.nz/news-and-events/news-and-information/our-wellington/2021/12/friday-five-street-names-mispronounced)
Isn’t it almost always referred to as K road though?
Not really, there’s been a push for people to use its full name and last time I was in Auckland everyone I spoke to did.
The fact that people need a “push” to not shorten the name doesn’t help your argument much.