/or/ distinctions: TOUR

[Beverly Flanigan]

To add to my earlier comment:  I might use "back East" for "way way back,"
like Boston, but not for New York, Washington, Philly, etc.; they're "out
East."  Another issue is whether, in writing, we would capitalize the
region or not; I find that I always do for the region, but not for the
simple direction ("traveling west").

At 11:10 AM 4/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 4/14/2000 2:45:29 PM, stevek at SHORE.NET writes:
>
><< For a Michigander, Boston is out east.  >>
>
>For this Iowan Boston is BACK east.
>