Perspective | Phone home? NoVa’s Atteentee Road is named after the phone company.

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Phone home? NoVa’s Atteentee Road is named after the phone company.

: “The new name comes from the Latin word ‘veritas,’ which means truth, and also connotes certainty and reliability; and ‘horizon,’ which signifies the possibilities ahead.”

I took this meandering journey down a figurative Memory Lane so we could arrive at an actual physical lane: Atteentee Road in Springfield, Va. Whenfirst moved to the D.C. area in the late 1970s, he lived on that street, which was pronounced just like that telecom company: “A-T-N-T.”Wrote David, who lives in Afton, Va., now: “The story I was told was that a major phone line runs down the road but an abbreviation was not an allowable name.

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