Re: English is a crazy language
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 13:14 |
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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.
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