What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 20 June 2022.

Na Rovnosti was built in 1925. Very literal translation: ‘On Equality’.

The street is so called because the terrain around it is rovinatý. Flat, level, plain. You get it.

It would be much more awesome if the name were something to do with Volnost, rovnost, bratrství, AKA ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité’.

Or rovnost před zákonem, which is equality before the law, AKA isonomy.

Or rovnost příležitostí, i.e. equal opportunities.