In the state of Hawaii, the legislature passed a law (I believe in the 1950s) which decreed that any new road or street created after the date of the act, must have a Hawaiian name. It is therefore easy to identify the older parts of Honolulu and its suburbs when names such as Hotel Street.King, Beretania, Pensacola, etc. show up on the street maps. This street-naming issue became the subject of recent controversy when the Federal government closed the Naval Air Station at Barbers Point, and the State set about renaming all of the streets previously named after famous WWII battles (e.g., Coral Sea) with barely pronounceable Hawaiian names. Keep in mind, the Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters, so permutations of those 13 letters into words that actually mean something in Hawaiian, results in a listing of street names almost indistinguishable from each other (lots of k,l and m combinations). I don't think the controversy has been resolved, as the opponents of having to learn all those new Hawaiian street names maintain that the old names should be grandfathered as part of the naval history of the islands.