At 07:31 2015-01-05, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
When parsing addresses some cities can be two or three words. Has
anyone seen a list of prefixes? For example "New" in "New River" or
"St." in "St. Johns".
I am wondering why you are so caught up with prefixes and what
problem it is that you are trying to solve.
I live in British Columbia, and there are definitely some
interesting names here. There are some that could be considered to
have prefixes, such as North Vancouver and West Vancouver, but these
are separate communities and not part of Vancouver. East Vancouver
is simply eastern Vancouver, but the name is not used in mail.
100 Mile House and 150 Mile House are two other B.C.
communities. The names come from their points on the Old Cariboo
Road. This mileage is used by other locations, too. Mileage is also
used on the Alaska Highway. The community of Wonowon, BC gets its
name from being at Mile 101 of the Alaska Highway.
What about suffixes?
Queen Charlotte City does not have a prefix of "Queen" as much
as it has a suffix of "City" (if you must look at it this way).
Any list of prefixes or suffixes is going to have a lot of one-off cases.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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