Daylight Saving(s)/ driver's license

Peter A. McGraw pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Tue Feb 11 18:49:33 UTC 2003


Funny--I'm almost positive that we had "driver education" at West Linn (OR)
High School when I was in attendance there.  I can still see the sign on
the car provided for the purpose by a local dealer.

Of course, that was in a previous century...

Peter Mc.

--On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:42 AM -0800 Peter Richardson
<prichard at linfield.edu> wrote:

> Maybe Washington's the "different" one. Ever since I got my first driver's
> license in Illinois in 1959 the document has had the possessive form.
> That includes Arkansas and Connecticut. The high schools here in Oregon
> also offer driver's/drivers' ed., which I assume is standard nationwide
> and not (but maybe in Washington??) driver ed.
>
> Peter R.
>
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Anne Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Fritz:
>> not sure about that, but I have a similar question: why do people in
>> Oregon say driver'S license, when it is a driver license (says so on the
>> license). Do other states have driver or driver's licenses?
>>
>> Huh?  I always thought it *was* "driver's license", not that it makes any
>> difference.  Of course, I'm in Washington.  Maybe things are different in
>> Oregon?
>> Anne G
>>



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu



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