Streetwords

One-word street names are unusual but not entirely uncommon. Two-word street names are definitely the norm. Three-word street names are all over the place. But four-word street names are rare. Here are a few: SCOTLAND GREEN ROAD NORTH, ADAM AND EVE COURT, DUKE OF YORK STREET, HAUNCH OF VENISON YARD, HYDE PARK GARDENS MEWS, LITTLE ST JAMES'S STREET, STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET, SAINT MARTIN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH PATH And five-word street names, or longer, are even rarer. (no photo) I wondered how rare. Specifically I wondered what proportion of street names have 1/2/3/4+ words. You can probably guess that two-word street names are most common, but are they 60%, 70%, 80% or whatever? You might want to have a guess before I bash some stats. I started with my local postcode area, E3. It has 461 streets, according to an online list. None of them have one word. [0%] 414 of them have two words. [89.8%] 45 of them have three words. [9.8%] 2 of them have four words. [0.4%] The two four-letter…