terms (not only) for CA

[Benjamin Barrett]

Being from Seattle, I'll have to test that expression out. I've never heard
it, but it is useful. (For this side of the mountains, I like the term
Cascadia.)

Benjamin Barrett

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On
>
> To a Northwesterner, "Inland Empire" means the part of the Pacific
> Northwest that lies east of the Cascade Range--i.e., central and eastern
> Oregon and Washington, and all of Idaho.  At least it used to
> mean that.  I
> haven't heard it in awhile.  This is the first I've heard of the
> term being
> used to describe a part of California.
>
> Peter Mc.