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Re: "Neat" Pictures

 

Did you know in northwest DC' date=' there's [strike']nothing[/strike] no J street between I street and K street?

 

I'm convinced this was a deliberate decision to prevent J-walking on a massive scale.

Probably Urban Legend, but one story is that Pierre L'Enfant hated with a passion John Jay.

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Re: "Neat" Pictures

 

Probably Urban Legend' date=' but one story is that Pierre L'Enfant hated with a passion John Jay.[/quote']

 

Definitely Urban Legend - Snopes even has a page on it: Link

 

The mundane explanation is that J Street was likely omitted simply because the letters I and J were often indistinguishable from each other (especially when handwritten)' date=' and in 18th century English they were still largely interchangeable. (The 1740 "New General English Dictionary" published in London had a single section for I and J, and the standard identification Thomas Jefferson used on his personal possessions was "T.I.") Having both an "I" and a "J" street would have been redundant at best and confusing at worst, so "J" ended up as the odd man out.[/quote']
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