Thomas Edison, how could you?

[Alice Faber]

Mark A Mandel said:
>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!
>

So, now *two* associations...

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