"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>
> 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.
Only in writing. Only in writing. In conversation, it's "the
interstate" or "I35."
And anyway, I think that the "I" in "IH" actually stands for
"interregional", not "interstate". (Can't find confirmation of that at
the moment, though. I remember seeing it that way on something official
at some point, though.)
Julia
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