'kife'/'parking garage'

[James Smith]

We called them "parking terraces" when I was younger,
now I think "garage" has pretty much replaced
"terrace" in these parts.


--- David Bowie <db.list at PMPKN.NET> 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
> Assistant Professor
> Brigham Young University
> db.list at pmpkn.net
> http://humanities.byu.edu/faculty/bowied
>    The opinions stated here are not necessarily
> those of my employer


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