Darren,
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
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>From: Darren Madams <darren@madams.com>
>To: Sethracer@aol.com
>Cc: kkelly@spss.com, ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Accents
>Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2001, 11:23 AM
>
>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
>Capital City Freeway" which nearly everyone appreviates "Cap City
>Freeway" and I've even heard "The Cap" a few times on traffic reports.
>The morning news even abbreviates it "CCF", not to be confused with GGF!
>
>A better question, is why is 280 labelled North/South when the majority
>of it's use is East/West? And why the hell is 880 called "The Nimitz"?
>
> --Darren
>
>p.s. English accents are still pretty geographic. My mom (who only has
>started adjusting her strong English accent in the last few years) can
>generally pinpoint the county, if not the city of true English people.
>As travel and migration have picked up, they've all muddled, but in the
>smaller lower-class communties accents are so strong they're even their
>own language (Cornish for example, which my Grandfather speaks and I
>attempted to learn a few years ago).
>
>You wrote:
>> Katie writes:
>> I find accents really fascinating, and all of them possess their own
>charm. I wish people would stop moving so much, so there could be some
>consistency.
>>
>>
>> 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
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