norg
n.— «“Norg” because we need to lose our old identity with one dying medium, newspapers, and stress our most valuable commodity, the one that we truly own, and that is news…without the paper. Thus, we must now be news organizations, or “norgs.”» —“The New Philadelphia Experiment: Saving the Daily News” by Will Bunch Attytood (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Oct. 24, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Listeners continue to chime in on the topic of funny street names. One of them points out that in Philadelphia, there’s a Rhoads Street and a Street Road. This is part of a complete episode.
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