Date:  Wed, 30 Nov 1994 17:52:20 -0800

From:  "Alan S. Kaye" <AKAYE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCVAX.FULLERTON.EDU>

Subject: Re: 'the' in place names (Kaye)



Re names and numbers for freeways:

   Ron Rabin's point is that numbers replaced names. Not so. The 10

is still the San Bernardino Fwy; the 91 is still the Riverside Fwy. These

are, I think, sociolectical variants (try to prove it!), or at least, free

variants.



   I can say: I took the 10 home. Yet I cannot say: I took the 80

home. Or: I took the 40 home. So much for the disisible by 10 theory.



   The names are still very, very common (for some people much more used

than numbers).



Alan Kaye

akaye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]fullerton.edu