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Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Friday, March 23, 2001, 6:19
John Cowan wrote:

> 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. :-)
What, inbred? Or southerners? Or both?
> > 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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