America and Americans / Europeans

[Drew Danielson]

I have heard people in these parts describe Pittsburgh as the first
[easternmost] Midwestern city, as well as the last [westernmost] Eastern
city.  I cannot attest to the thought process behind either statement,
though the both make sense to me, culturally and geographically.


Lynne Murphy wrote:
>
> --On Friday, February 22, 2002 10:26 am -0800 FRITZ JUENGLING
> <juengling_fritz at SMTPGATE.SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US> wrote:
>
> > I have a student from Arkansas, who insists that Arkansas is in the
> > Midwest.  Her logic--Arkansas is next to Missouri and Missouri is in the
> > Midwest. Fritz
>
> I had a friend who moved from NYC to Ohio and constantly complained about
> being 'in the midwest'.  I, being from western NY (and living in Illinois
> at the time), insisted that Ohio was still 'east'.  I think my reasoning
> was that Ohio and NY are both on Lake Erie, so they have to both be in the
> same region.
>
> It's all relative...
> Lynne
>
> Dr M Lynne Murphy
> Lecturer in Linguistics
> Acting Director, MA in Applied Linguistics
> School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
> University of Sussex
> Brighton BN1 9QH
> UK
>
> phone +44-(0)1273-678844
> fax   +44-(0)1273-671320

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