What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on X on 26 May 2024.

Two possibilities here.

The first one is that the street is named after number 4, U Modrého rámce (The Blue Frame). It’s pictured, and, at least in 2024, not noticeably blue.

The second theory is that the street is named after the frames (Czech: ‘rámy’) used by local cloth weavers, who worked nearby on Haštalské náměstí (coming up in about a week).

A cloth weaver in Czech is a ‘soukeník’, and they too have a street named after them in Prague 1, which will get a thread at some point in the 260 range.

In other words: there really are a lot of these streets, aren’t there.