Highway names

Peter A. McGraw pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Wed Jun 11 16:53:53 UTC 2003


Well, Larry, since they even named a city after you, I guess you should
know!

Peter Mc.

--On Tuesday, June 10, 2003 8:17 PM -0400 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

>> Is this usage peculiar to Kansas, or is it more widespread?
>>
> I think it's just Kansas. Based on this and the fact that the
> abbreviation for the University of Kansas is KU, I can only surmise
> that Kansas is free-word-order territory.  (Wasn't that one of the
> causes of the Civil War?)



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