America and Americans / Europeans

[David Bergdahl]

I have a friend who insists the Midwest begins at Troy, NY (east shore of
the Hudson at Albany)

--On Friday, February 22, 2002 6:35 PM +0000 Lynne Murphy
<lynnem at COGS.SUSX.AC.UK> 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
>
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