Daylight Saving(s) Time

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Feb 11 20:32:10 UTC 2003


At 11:05 AM -0800 2/11/03, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
>Of course everyone says driver's license.  I know what is says on
>the plastic, but still say the 's.  Maybe years back the license did
>say 'driver's license, but I have no idea when/if it changed.
>BTW, I just asked a couple students.  One said 'driving license',
>but then changed to 'driver's.s When I showed her my 'driver
>license', she had a good explanation--'It's cheaper to print one
>less letter.'  So, there you have it--Oregon is just trying to
>manage its budget woes.
>Fritz
>
Not to mention saving on the apostrophe.  (Apostrophe savings time.)
I guess Arkansas compromised by saving only on the apostrophe.  As
for the classes, ours in both NY and CT were always referred to as
"driver's ed", whatever they were officially.

larry



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