1) What is "The City?" (None is an OK answer.)
2) What do you call a limited access highway (with on-ramps and over or underpasses)?
3) what State are you from?
1) San Francisco
I don't understand the other questions.
Well, maybe the one about the state, I think.
Once you get to California,it doesn't matter where you came from
It's like heaven, ain't it?
Don
1. Pandæmonium
2. chaussee
3. I reside in intoxication but was raised in denial
None close enough to earn the "THE" designation
Highway
Confusion
As to the first question, it used to drive me nuts to hear my second cousin say something like, "we went to The City car shopping last week". She meant Kansas City, MO which was 80 or so miles distant from her home. I could not comprehend why it would be "The City". I also do not like it when people shorten the name of a city for some weird reason. For example, "I'm headin' into Dodge", when they really mean Fort Dodge. The name of the city is Fort Dodge. You never hear of someone going to "Paul" when they mean St. Paul. Although, I have heard St. Francis referred to as Sainty.
As to the second question, freeways exist only in metropolitan areas, and we don't have any of those. Parkways are an abomination against the laws of nature. Interstates only should be called that if they have the official designation as such. I still have no idea what a beltway, either inner or outer, is supposed to be except to indicate you are near way too many people.
> 1) What is "The City?" (None is an OK answer.)
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> 2) What do you call a limited access highway (with on-ramps and over or underpasses)?
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> 3) what State are you from?
A1: In Texas, "The City" refers to the nearest incorporated city with parking meters and a population in excess of 75,000. Everything else is at best a town. The exception to this rule is that "the City" can refer to the machinery of city government in cases including smaller incorporated cities when what one wants to do requires an approval by the same.
A2: By default, that would be an interstate if it weren't for the bevy of privately operated toll roads that have shown up in Texas. Toll roads obviously aren't freeways since they are a shakedown racket.
A3: This applies to Texas, specifically Central Texas.
> 1) What is "The City?" (None is an OK answer.)
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The "City" is either Logan or Pocatello. "Town" is either Clifton or Preston. You don't want to know what we call the mess south of Brigham City and North of Santaquinn.
> 2) What do you call a limited access highway (with on-ramps and over or underpasses)?
>
Freeway
> 3) what State are you from?
Idaho
You get an A on this test.
Yes for Californians The City is San Francisco although I think Los Angeles, San Jose and San Diego are larger Cities.
You must be grading on the curve.
Doin' never got an 'A' in his life.
Unless it was for looking good on a horse.
I believe that's called "Showmanship."
🙂
Don
1) No particular city, or else the local municipal government and its departments, as "the city re-paved First Avenue"
2) Interstate, if applicable, or just highway otherwise. Sometimes "4-lane highway" to distinguish them from lesser highways. No toll roads around here.
3) Iowa
> 1) What is "The City?" (None is an OK answer.)
>
> 2) What do you call a limited access highway (with on-ramps and over or underpasses)?
>
> 3) what State are you from?
1) None
2) Interstate
3) NH
I'm still trying understand how most of the country appears to pronounce Mary, marry and merry exactly the same.
Richmond
Highway (the last paragraph of Holy Cow's post pretty much sums up my thoughts about it though)
Virginia
"the City" none in particular- a "City" would be Spokane
Interstate
Montana
How do you pronounce them differently?
This is Northeast Texas, we don't need no cities here.
Interstate, we got two I-20 & I-30 and both go to DFW metroplex (a bunch of cities)
Texas
B-)
A little off the subject maybe...
but is the fish "crappie" (like it's spelled) or do you pronounce it "croppie"?
BTW - All Cajuns and anyone from the State of Louisiana is discouraged from replying.;-)
> Yes for Californians The City is San Francisco
Sounds familiar. My wife is from the Bay Area (San Francisco, not Hudson) and said it a real turismo mistake to call San Francisco "Frisco" or "San Fran". The first time we visited down there she explicitly told me to refer to it as "The City" if I wanted to fit in. I had a GREAT time visiting Frisco.
1) New York City
2) Turnpike, 95, 91 Merrit
3) Connecticut
1. New Orleans
2. four-lane
3. Louisiana
1) Hyannis
2) Highway
3) Massatwosh_ts, as they say south of the Mason Dixon line.....and west of the Mississippi, and south of the pecos 🙂
