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    Random reader

    Every revolution topples statues and renames streets.

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      methylethyl

      Renaming streets stuff that nobody who lives there can spell or pronounce seems like a guarantee they’ll keep calling it whatever it was before.

      When I was a kid, our town took a main road with a one-syllable name that described *where the road terminated* (like out “airport road” is the one that goes to the airport, you know?)… and they renamed it “Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard”. Ten syllables. They have to amputate it to fit it on the road signs. Locals are divided on what to call this road now. Oldsters call it by its old name. Everyone else refers to it as “Mulkjer Bulvd”.

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        Random reader

        my grandmother lived in several different countries and cities without ever moving. renaming is very disruptive and erases the history of a place, which is the goal of that exercise.

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    Anonymous

    Public stocks.

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    oldcowboy3

    Remove the Indian Act funding and Chief Catchembigbucks and his forty eleven councillors will finally seek useful employment.

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    Avi

    Good thing email has replaced letters: can you imagine the nightmare of writing the address on an envelope?

    Still, I wonder what happens with legal documents: or are addresses not required on those in the US?

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      Anonymous

      It’s not in the US.

      The legal name will be the new name and will have to appear on all legal documents.

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    Avi

    Oh sorry, for a moment I confused Vancouver with Seattle. My bad, as Americans say.

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    PaulS

    New York should have stayed New Amsterdam. At least New Zealand kept its original Dutch name.

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