Re: English is a crazy language

From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
> Danny Wier scripsit:
>
> > A type of freeway in a city. Why "park" is in the word I do not know,
unless
> > parkways originally led to parks....
>
> They are so named because surrounded by parkland.  In New York State
> at least, highways with "Parkway" in their name have special rules:
> no trucks.
Perversely, the latest Parkway I know of built in our town was *for* the
trucks
to have a more convenient way to the plant.

     *Muke!
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