jitney

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:51 AM -0800 12/11/00, James Smith wrote:
>The only use of "jitney" with which I am familiar is
>for cars, vans, and small trucks used in unregulated,
>free-market mass transport in places such as Africa,
>the Phillipines, and Mexico and Central America
>

It's used for the van that shuttles between certain University of
California campus libraries, e.g. if you're at Santa Cruz and would
like to borrow books from the much larger library at Berkeley.

Larry