CRIEF (street type of some sort)
Gerry Gaffney
I was browsing a database of street name types & their associated
abbreviations recently, and among the leafy avenues, closes, lanes,
alleys, circuits, roads, cul-de-sacs and so on, I found a "crief".
I have been unable to find anything on this (except that it's the name
of a place in Scotland).
Can anyone tell me what a crief is? It's possible that it's a misspelling,
or that it's actually the name of a street (e.g. "Crief Street") that
has slipped into the database in the wrong field.
Thanks for any assistance.
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Brian J Goggin
On 1 Feb 1997 00:44:41 GMT, Ge...@InfoDesign.com.au (Gerry Gaffney)
wrote:
>I was browsing a database of street name types & their associated
>abbreviations recently, and among the leafy avenues, closes, lanes,
>alleys, circuits, roads, cul-de-sacs and so on, I found a "crief".
[...]
>Can anyone tell me what a crief is? It's possible that it's a misspelling,
>or that it's actually the name of a street (e.g. "Crief Street") that
>has slipped into the database in the wrong field.
I used Alta Vista. After several references to Crief in Scotland, I
found a list of Australian members of the RCA (Reformed Church of
Australia?), including
> Launceston: Allan Quak 22 Pitten Crief, Riverside, Tas. 7250 (003) 27 1706
I don't know what a crief is, but perhaps Allan Quak Launceston could
tell you.
bjg
Marko
Crief is not in the OED nor to be found in the Dictionary of British
Surnames (where I looked for Crief and MontCrief). It appears that the
name is Scottish. Perhaps a Caledonian passing by can help us?
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Marko
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Chris Malcolm
In article <5d0mgn$i...@news.istar.ca> 9mu...@magi.com (Marko) writes:
>Crief is not in the OED nor to be found in the Dictionary of British
>Surnames (where I looked for Crief and MontCrief). It appears that the
>name is Scottish. Perhaps a Caledonian passing by can help us?
Crieff is the placename, Moncrieff is the personal name.
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Chris Malcolm c...@dai.ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
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Rainer Thonnes
In article <5d0mgn$i...@news.istar.ca>, 9mu...@magi.com (Marko) writes:
> Crief is not in the OED nor to be found in the Dictionary of British
> Surnames (where I looked for Crief and MontCrief). It appears that the
> name is Scottish. Perhaps a Caledonian passing by can help us?
Crieff is a small town in Scotland. Moncrieff is a popular surname,
with 40 entries in the Edinburgh phone book, but only one each for
Moncreiff, Moncrief, Moncrieffe, and Montcrieff, and none at all for
Crieff or its variants.
