'kife'/'parking garage'

[Donald M. Lance]

In my personal lexicon, a 'garage' has outer walls, so sometimes I automatically use
"structure" to refer to "garages" that consist of a series of ramps, and sometimes I use
"garage" to refer to these structures on the campus of the University of Missouri or in
the city of Columbia.
DMLance

David Bowie wrote:

> From:    JP Villanueva <jvillanu at CTC.CTC.EDU>
>
> <snip>
>
> : Another regionalism with a more modern word might be 'parking garage,'
> : which we say in the Northwest and other places, and 'parking structure'
> : which was definately the standard in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Any
> : thoughts?--jpv
>
> It's also 'parking garage' in the Baltimore MD-Washington DC area. I don't
> recall 'parking structure' from my time in Philadelphia, but i didn't have a
> car 'til i moved to the outlying suburbs there, and so i'm not sure what
> it's called there--but the mall expansion in Exton PA certainly did involve
> a new 'parking garage', not structure.
>
> David Bowie                                       Department of English
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