I remember that there was another neighborhood with streets named after countries in Santiago, in La Cisterna. Also there is a street named "Central America" that splits into two, one named "North America" and the other "South America".
In fact it appears more to be laziness on the part of the UK english. Whilst the 'ize' form is derived from the greek endings, certain english verbs had to end with 'ise'. As we were too lazy to remember which ended 'ize' or 'ise' we just took the pragmatic approach and used 'ise' version for all of them.
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The comment isn't interesting but the question behind it is quite legit: it's odd to say the least that a post like this would surface on the front page, here where you'd assume most if not all are already aware of it. It'd be interesting to know why.
Do you have a list of other topics that are so obvious that no Hacker News community member can possibly gain any value what so ever from reading about them?
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