Re: USAGE: subway

Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>These two sentences illustrate a usage that occasionally gets my boyfriend
>and me into agruments.  :)  I grew up in the Bay Area and call it "BART."
>When we visited my hometown, he insisted on calling it "the BART."  Makes
>me cringe every time -- BART takes no article!
>
>On the other hand, if I'm ever in Dallas, I'm willing to conform to local
>standards and say "the DART."  :)
I think though that Southern Californians append articles to everything
such as "the 101" or "the pacific coast highway". Anyway, yeah you're
right, the way most people in the bay area call it is just "BART" not "The
BART".

I liked Adam walker's story about what would one call a Fresno Area Rapid
Transit :).

If Chicago called their system the Chicago Area Rapid Transit it would
be.. CART :).