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1. RE: Accents (score: 1): Author: Sethracer@aol.com; Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:56:05 EST; 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; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00051.html (7,506 bytes)
2. RE: Accents (score: 1): Author: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:08:34 -0800; It is because of the shallow, materialist attitudes of those in Southern California who name objects as if they are possessions, while here in Northern California, we name these cold slabs of concret; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00052.html (8,209 bytes)
3. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: Darren Madams <darren@madams.com>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:23:38 -0800 (PST); Probably the same reason that up in Sacramento, where half the freeways are called some form of 80 and travel in all directions. It's so confusing that pretty much everyone calls one of the 80s "The; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00053.html (8,928 bytes)
4. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@attbi.com>; Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 11:14:33 -0800; The "the" is creeping into the various traffic guys' vocabulary up here. I've been tempted to call and tell them to knock it off! --Pat K P.S. note my new email address, I post with high hopes it wil; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00054.html (8,333 bytes)
5. RE: Accents (score: 1): Author: "Michael R. Clements" <mrclem@telocity.com>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:44:57 -0500; I always thought 880 was called the Nimitz for the same reason the Navy has named an aircraft carrier the Nimitz, and also the Nimitz museum. It's in honor of Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, wh; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00055.html (9,788 bytes)
6. RE: Accents (score: 1): Author: "Michael R. Clements" <mrclem@telocity.com>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:46:30 -0500; Ah, Google is soooooo awesome. Highway 880 was named in honor of Admiral Nimitz by Senate Concurrent Resolution 23, Chapter 84 in 1958. I always thought 880 was called the Nimitz for the same reason; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00056.html (10,235 bytes)
7. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>; Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:18:30 -0800; oh good grief, we are all suffering from holiday season autocross withdrawal. is it almost the 16th??? please, im trying to read my new Jegs catalog! :) now what size MAF should i get? -james c "True; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00057.html (11,609 bytes)
8. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: "Scot Zediker" <roadsterboy@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:31:29 -0800; HEY!!!! I resemble that! Scot; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00059.html (7,994 bytes)
9. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@attbi.com>; Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:31:45 -0800; You weren't around when the Nimitz Freeway was built, the first one in the East Bay and proudly (at the time in the late 50s) named after a WWII Admiral Nimitz. Who was to know? --Pat K --; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00060.html (10,042 bytes)
10. RE: Accents (score: 1): Author: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:59:48 -0800 (PST); 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'; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00062.html (8,438 bytes)
11. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: "Jerry Mouton" <jerry@moutons.org>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 13:48:22 -0800; 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",; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00066.html (9,629 bytes)
12. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@attbi.com>; Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:51:17 -0800; I fear it's too late, he's been totally absorbed into the SoCal Culture. --Pat K -; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00068.html (7,736 bytes)
13. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:16:10 -0800 (PST); It was just a slip, and I apologized and made it up to her! Thanks for being so Frank. ;) KeS; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00070.html (8,391 bytes)
14. RE: Accents (score: 1): Author: craig boyle <craig_autox@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:09:42 -0800 (PST); Most definitely each city has a different accent in the UK and England specifically. In Bay Area terms, that would mean SF, Oakland and San Jose would all sound radically different. ... That's diffe; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00074.html (8,963 bytes)
15. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: craig boyle <craig_autox@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:53:03 -0800 (PST); Yep, it would be un-American to not drop articles and prepositions, flatten vowels and verb nouns whenever needed ;-) Craig Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00085.html (8,991 bytes)
16. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>; Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:07:47 -0500; Message text written by Darren Madams " And why the hell is 880 called "The Nimitz"? " -- End Original Message -- Before it was a number, it was the new four-lane road to San Jose from Oakland. Somew; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00088.html (8,019 bytes)
17. Re: Accents (score: 1): Author: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@attbi.com>; Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 12:22:44 -0800; I dislike double negatives. Guess that means if would be 'American' to drop articles and prepositions. :) Dropping a "the" that was never there seems like a waste of time and keystrokes. :) Redundanc; /html/ba-autox/2001-12/msg00094.html (9,603 bytes)

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