Thomas Edison, how could you?

[Mark A Mandel]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Peter A. McGraw wrote:

#A nit: Why isn't it the "New Joisey Toinpike"?

It is. Well, it's the ['nu:'dZ3Izi:'t3InpaIk], but written <New Jersey
Turnpike>.

Driving down to Philadelphia the other week from Massachusetts, I was
massively confused and led astray by a road sign on the Garden State
that indicated a turn for <icon that looked like a diagram of the human
bowels>, with no text attached. It could be a stylized "M" with an
outline map of NJ inside it in white. I thought it was for the NJTP, but
it wasn't.

-- Mark A. Mandel