[Ads-l] _viaduct_ "overpass"

[Jonathan Lighter]

My grandmother called them "viaducts," too, and she applied the word
to highway overpasses as well.

She was born long before there were any highway overpasses.

JL

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> viadock
>
>
> Close, but no cigar. It's "vie-dock" in StL BE.
>
>
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