At 12:53 PM 11/2/2002 -0800 Matt Grimaldi wrote:
>William Taylor wrote:
>>
>> >Question: What da 'ell else interstate is there to drive on?
>> >
>> >If there were interstate dirt roads and interstate monorails and
interstate
>> >skateboard ramps, then I could see the need for the word highway to
>> >diferentiate one interstate system from another.
>> >
>
>What about interstate commerce, interstate law
>enforcement, or, I don't know, interstate bowling
>leagues? Those aren't highways.
Thank you.
I can't believe that I didn't immediately point out that the word
"interstate" is an adjective, not a noun! (Obviously colloquialism is
changing this, but in pure English, interstate should be an adjective.)
Thus, Texans seem to be the most grammatically correct.
JDG
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