My wife is a cartographer and for many years she worked for Rand McNally doing maps across the USA, and one thing she would come across all the time were misspelled street names.
This "bridal" thing is one she would encounter often.
Thing is, when a developer builds a housing tract they can name the streets whatever they want. Often they're the typical American things like the names of trees, presidents, states, rivers, and so forth. Other times she would come across quirky things like the tract where the streets were Kirk, Enterprise, Spock, Scotty, and so forth.
Oftentimes if a tract were intended for horse-owners the names would be Silver Spur, Saddlehorn, and... wait for it... Bridal Path.
These misspellings were in fact the actual names, so the mapmakers have to put them on their maps!
Last edited by OC Richard; 13th March 15 at 05:33 AM.
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