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Is it chic or difficult to have a complicated street name? Such a name that looks nice on a street names, but is always wrong on a birthday card? The residents of these Zoetermeerse streets may have to do with this.

Baron de Coubertinlaan sounds like a neat street with stately houses, but it is a road on a business park. The employees there must sometimes spell the last name of that baron. This probably also applies to residents in the Rokkeveense streets Beryl and Aluin. How do I write that?

Nice name just …

The street names committee within the municipality of Zoetermeer comes up with all the names of streets, bridges, buildings and shopping centers. Together the committee members come up with the names that come on the signs. In doing so, they do not always take the practical side into account: the correct pronouncement and writing of the names. Take a look at the next Zoetermeerse street names:

  • Wiardi Beckmanrode
  • Zernikestraat
  • Vitruvius room
  • From Matzfeldpad
  • Embden
  • Czech -side
  • Skidmorelijn
  • Pasqualinischans
  • Lisztrode
  • Freyssinet
  • Bass
  • Douschans

Read even more remarkable street names in Zoetermeer? Then take a look at the article below:

The Bebuurt Zoetermeer likes funny facts and facts about our city. This list fits perfectly …

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