Thomas Edison, how could you?

[Peter A. McGraw]

I know--I used to live there.  I just meant if you're writing "New Joisey"
in a jocular representation of that sound, why not "Toinpike" as well?
(I.e., just a small mind insisting on one of those foolish consistencies.)

PMc

--On Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:13 PM -0400 Mark A Mandel
<mam at THEWORLD.COM> wrote:

># A nit: Why isn't it the "New Joisey Toinpike"?
>
> It is. Well, it's the ['nu:'dZ3Izi:'t3InpaIk], but written <New Jersey
> Turnpike>.



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu