In the Pacific Beach community of San Diego, there are streets named for gemstones, named alphabetically. Some of them get butchered regularly, even by locals; i.e., Beryl, Chalcedony and even Garnet, which is locally pronounced GarNET. In my area of town, a group of north/south streets are named for birds, beginning with Albatross, Brant, Curlew, etc. East/west streets in the same area are named for shrubs or trees; Ash, Beech, Cedar, etc. Another section, Point Loma, has famous writers and poets' names appended. The ones I loathe are the new neighborhoods where streets are named for the developer's daughter or a family pet, etc., ad nauseum, or simply fabricated from whole cloth.