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From: Joel Plutchak
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 15:49
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In article <BZS.92Dec31174328@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>Wait a minute, ne.* is "New England", not Northeast, only people who
>report the weather ever refer to the "Northeast" of the US...

   In that case, who's gonna tell the DC-ers and New Yorkers that use
the ne.* groups to get their mid-Atlantic and/or Northeastern mits outta
the New England groups? :-)
   Also, people in and from the Midwest call the northeastern states
the Northeast (and not all of them are weather reporters).
--
Joel Plutchak, Research Programmer/Analyst
Disclaimer: Involuntary vocalization may occur.
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From: plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak)
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Date: 4 Jan 93 15:49:20 GMT
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