Highway names

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:53 AM -0700 6/11/03, Peter A. McGraw wrote:
>Well, Larry, since they even named a city after you, I guess you should
>know!

No, no, that's La*w*rence with a w again!  No relation.

>
>--On Tuesday, June 10, 2003 8:17 PM -0400 Laurence Horn
><laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>
>>>Is this usage peculiar to Kansas, or is it more widespread?
>>>
>>I think it's just Kansas. Based on this and the fact that the
>>abbreviation for the University of Kansas is KU, I can only surmise
>>that Kansas is free-word-order territory.  (Wasn't that one of the
>>causes of the Civil War?)