This is the outside of the place where I’m staying in the 1300 block of Burgundy Street. The first time I said I was staying on BURgundy Street the person I was talking to looked confused and then said, oh yeah, BurGUNdy Street.
I was on a trolley today talking to the driver to see where I should get off and about one thing and another. ‘You’re not from around here, are you?’ asks the driver. ‘Right, I’m not from around here’ I reply. ‘But how do you know’ says he, ‘to say BurGUNdy?’. It’s like how you say Burgundy Street is a code, for being from ‘around here’ and being from ‘somewhere else’.