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Contents 1 SoHo 2 Houston? 3 Photographs of "Cobblestones" 4 Requested move 4.1 Survey 4.2 Discussion

[edit] SoHo

Who first called it SoHo??? Wshun

The mysterious faceless unnamed beggar fom Sullivan st. :)

I've convinced myself that SoHo is almost certainly a bacronym for a place named after London's Soho. Any etymologists want to pick up on this and investigate?

Whatever it is, saying that it is an acronym is stretching the term. Acronyms are formed from initial letters, not initial pairs of letters. It is more accurate to call it a blend (which is not the same as a portmanteau, incidentally) — it follows the pattern of "cyborg" given in the article for blend. — Paul G 11:58, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

By the way, I notice that TriBeCa is described as a syllabic abbreviation; I don't think however that this term is appropriate for "SoHo" becuase the components are not syllables of the source words. — Paul G 07:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Houston?

Is there a reason to its unusual pronunciation? Houston is the name of a major city as well, and it is pronounced like Hyoo-stin there. I lived there for years, then moved to New York only to hear this completely different pronunciation of what appears to be the same name.

The article on Houston Street mentions that it's actually the name of a person that died 10 years before Sam Houston was even born. Apparently the person's name was spelled differently and eventually was changed to the current spelling. The name, by the way, is William Houstoun. --Thesilence 21:30, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

A discussion of Houston's pronunciation is fair and might even be needed, but why delete it altogether? An editor deleted Houston's pronunciation by stating: "inappropriate for an article not about Houston Street". Though, being that "SoHo's name comes from its geographical location in the city - South of Houston Street. Designated a historic landmark district in 1973" SoHo's unique pronunciation is appropriate, needed and relevant! Farfallina123 08:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. There is a much more relevant discussion of the pronunciation on the Houston Street page; it's repetitive to have it on every page that has the word Houston in the title. A link to the page is enough. It's not in the article about William Houstoun, nor is it in the NoHo article. If people really think that it's necessary to include it on this page, at least use the IPA pronunciation, ['haʊ.stən], along with the more correct English version, "HOW-stin" (vs. "HOUSE-tin"), and add it to the two articles about NoHo and Houstoun. 72.231.23.231 20:13, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photographs of "Cobblestones"

This photograph does not show a cobblestoned street but one which is paved. Cobblestones are round, pavings are flat. I don't wish to edit as I am unsure if these streets were indeed cobblestoned at some time, but both the photgraphs and references to cobblestones may be incorrect. This mistake is made frequently on Wikipedia. Images of cobblestones can be seen

Greynolds999 (talk) 17:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes I agree. The caption is not technically correct to call those cobblestones. Related discussion: Talk:Cobblestone#Cobbles and Setts. Most people haven't heard of "setts" though. Maybe the caption should just say "stone" -- Harry Wood (talk) 23:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move