Thomas Edison, how could you?

[Mark A Mandel]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Alice Faber wrote:

#Mark A Mandel said:

#>That's not her invention. I learned it from my dad, another logophile.
#>It means a route used to avoid paying toll, such as taking the exit just
#>before the tollbooth (given an appropriate toll structure). ... Ah. OED
#>doesn't know it, but AHD4 does, so it's probably an Americanism:

#My father also used this term, in the 50s, interchangeably, I
#believe, with "toll-dodging", which will be, forever, my only
#association with Tuckahoe, NY.

Which is where we lived!

-- Mark A. Mandel