'kife'/'parking garage'

[Bob Haas]

Never heard parking structure.  Around here those things are called parking
decks.


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Bob Haas
Department of English
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
High Point University


"Shun the frumious Bandersnatch!"


> From: Kim & Rima McKinzey <rkm at SLIP.NET>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 22:38:31 -0700
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: 'kife'/'parking garage'
>
> I had only heard parking garage up until we were in Hawaii last
> January and were told to park in the parking structure on the U. of
> Hawaii campus.  I had envisioned something under construction, but it
> was a regular old garage.
>
> Rima