What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 27 July 2022.

Pod Kapličkou was built in 1925.

Yes, I thought we were only going to get more central from here on, but then my atlas kindly reminded me that there’s a few streets on the outskirts of Prague 3 that I forgot about.

I found out that Pod Kapličkou is named after a nearby kaplička, but, when I thought it was time to double-check my facts, Seznam Slovník started to have a laugh.

I know that a kaple is a chapel (I also know that my Mac just tried to change kaple to ‘maple’ THREE TIMES).

So I am assuming a kaplička is a small chapel. But the dictionary also tells me that a kaplička is a gauge cluster, or one of these.

Given the street was built in 1925, I’m going to quietly go with the odds that we’re dealing with a chapel here. Not sure it’s there anymore, mind you.