Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 21, 2001, 12:05 |
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Tristan McLeay scripsit:
> What is the 10 or i-10?
A motorway running close to, but not quite on, the southern boundary of the U.S.
People who live south of it are the Tasmanians of the U.S. :-)
The prefix "I-" stands for "Interstate", though not all such roads are
actually interstate. They were built with federal funding in the 1960s.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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