"carmageddon" -- word of the weekend?

[Jim Parish]

Laurence Horn wrote:
> The oddest nomenclatural designation in the area for me was not “the
> n” for Interstate n, but the use of “the Southland” for the entire
> region (the L.A. Basin). When I arrived in 1966, I had no idea I had
> landed in the Southland…

Then there's Chicago. Shortly after beginning my graduate studies there,
I began hearing about "Chicagoland" - which is bad enough, but before I
finished people were using "the Chicagoland area"....

Jim Parish

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