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[Bernard W. Kane]

Checked files: earliest I found was from traffic anncr on WFLN-FM
Philadelphia on 12 August 1991
next, visual on KYW-TV Philadelphia 30 March 1992
Gaper Delay West on I-76

Surprised to find TV personality Phil Donohue telling interviewer Vladimir
Pozner
the people who say don't show us all that blood are the same people who
cause a gaper block as they drive along
on CNBC Talk/Live 16 May 1992

and most appropriately, NYTimes Week in Review 16 November 1997 quotes an
Allan Metcalf, professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and the
executive director of the ADS, talking about regional differences in
pronunciation and also defining gaper's block as
Traffic jam caused by gawkers

Bernie Kane
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