Thomas Edison, how could you?

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Thursday, August 22, 2002 1:35 pm -0400 "James A. Landau"
<JJJRLandau at AOL.COM> wrote:

> In a message dated 8/22/02 12:14:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> mam at THEWORLD.COM writes:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Peter A. McGraw wrote:
>>
>>  # A nit: Why isn't it the "New Joisey Toinpike"?
>
> Because "Joisey" is a regionalism, but "turnpikes" exist in all major USA
> dialect regions.


I don't know--New Jersey was part of my vocabulary well before turnpike,
which I consider to be a dialectalism for 'Thruway'.

New Yorkly,
Lynne


Dr M Lynne Murphy
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