Oh, Kevin, Kevin
How sudden and apparently complete the fall from grace!
Clearly "101" is the proper usage. The full name is
"Highway 101".
Like "Monsignor O' Malley", which can be properly
shortened to "O'Malley", "highway 101" can only be
properly shortened to "101". "The highway" would be correct,
as would "the Monsignor". Just as "the Monsignor O'Malley"
is a strange construct, "the highway 101" is unwwieldy.
"The 101 freeway" is an incorrect construction by any
reasonable northern rules of grammar.
Please do your part to straighten those SoCal people out.
Jerry
Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
rouler!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
To: <Sethracer@aol.com>
Cc: <kkelly@spss.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:59 PM
Subject: RE: Accents
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 Sethracer@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Okay. Why do Southern California call their freeways "THE 405" and
> > "THE 605", etc.? I don't take "THE 280" up to San Francisco, or "THE
> > 101" to Gilroy. I take Highway 280 or 101. My daughters used to laugh
> > at the southerner's naming convention. Both live there right now and
> > use the same terms. ARRRGH! -Seth
>
> a) We're right, you're wrong. ;) "The 805" is a contraction of "the 805
> freeway". You can't take "101" to Gilroy, it isn't a proper name.
>
> b) And besides, what's with taking "280" to "THE CITY"!? Don't y'all have
> more than ONE city up there?
>
> c) And besides THAT, fix your email program, it isn't wrapping lines.
>
> d) Now, about those daughters...
>
> KeS
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