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Tulse X. Luper writes:

>I grew up calling both Fairfax City and the political-jurisdictional wing of
>the County "Fairfax." There was no confusion. For clarity, if one gave
>directions within the County, you used some locality if possible (like
>"Annandale"), but if no locality name was associated with a given point, you
>said "Fairfax."

I'll admit that my objection to this in spoken language is a tad 
anal-retentive, but the written word is held to a higher standard. 
Since something can't be in both the city and the county, it is 
inherently ambiguous and sloppy to write of "a Fairfax restaurant" or "a 
Fairfax man." Much of the time, people who write things like that don't 
even KNOW whether they're talking about the city or the county.
 
>To this day, I call the area of Route 1 south of the Beltway
>"South Alexandria," even though it is not part of Alexandria; many of my
>coevals call it "Fairfax."

How about "the Groveton-Penn Daw-Hybla Valley corridor"? :-)

>AKA Vandalay Industries--is that the plastics division or the undergarments
>division?

Latex. :-). Congrats: You're the first person to note the reference.

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