"carmageddon" -- word of the weekend?
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Fri Jul 15 16:45:06 UTC 2011
On Jul 15, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Jim Parish wrote:
> 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"....
oh, you can find "the greater Chicagoland area", which I remember from my years at UIUC.
arnold
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