Entity Framework naming conventions for many-to-many link tables

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Hi,

We are designing a SQL Server database with link tables for many-to-many relations. The question is are there any best practices for naming these kinds of tables for use with the entity framework?

Let's say there's a table

Customer and Address

Then there is a link table between them, what do we call it? CustomerAddress ? Or something else?

Thnx

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