terms (not only) for CA
Benjamin Barrett
gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Fri Sep 1 18:58:15 UTC 2000
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.
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