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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 423586" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>Exactly. I sent mine back just a bit ago (I was out all evening).</p><p> </p><p>I love the sense of "other". If you're writing about Paris, you're going to talk about the Rue de St-Faubourg Honore or somesuch - if you're writing about, say, rural Ohio, you're going to have "State Route 54" or "Mechanicsburg-Bellefontaine Road" (that's pronounced "Bell-fountain" by the way). Tulsa, Oklahoma has "The BA" - but in Dayton, Ohio, a freeway like that is "I-75". El Paso, Texas has an entire area of streets named for golfers: Lee Trevino (6-lane surface road), Tom Weiskopf (residential), and others. Back to Tulsa, and the equivalent is 65th Street - and Springboro, Ohio would be Market Street.</p><p> </p><p>BUT... There will be people who don't "get it". (I did get a little stuck on kebabs... Never had them for breakfast... Then I realized that was so not the same thing.) Also - here a tarmac is at an airport, and asphalt/road is what you drive on...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 423586, member: 6705"] Exactly. I sent mine back just a bit ago (I was out all evening). I love the sense of "other". If you're writing about Paris, you're going to talk about the Rue de St-Faubourg Honore or somesuch - if you're writing about, say, rural Ohio, you're going to have "State Route 54" or "Mechanicsburg-Bellefontaine Road" (that's pronounced "Bell-fountain" by the way). Tulsa, Oklahoma has "The BA" - but in Dayton, Ohio, a freeway like that is "I-75". El Paso, Texas has an entire area of streets named for golfers: Lee Trevino (6-lane surface road), Tom Weiskopf (residential), and others. Back to Tulsa, and the equivalent is 65th Street - and Springboro, Ohio would be Market Street. BUT... There will be people who don't "get it". (I did get a little stuck on kebabs... Never had them for breakfast... Then I realized that was so not the same thing.) Also - here a tarmac is at an airport, and asphalt/road is what you drive on... [/QUOTE]
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