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In article <james.766270598@wrs.com>
james@wrs.com (James Moore) writes:

> The division isn't quite that simple.  San Diego natives (myself, for
> one) would never consider putting "the" in front of a freeway.  It
> would always be "5," or rarely "I-5."  Saying "the 5" is a
> crystal-clear sign that you're from LA or Orange County.

Gosh, you make that sound so awful... 

> Naming freeways is also only a LA/Orange County deal, and is never
> done in San Diego.  I think people in LA name their freeways so that
> no one from outside the area can understand their traffic reports.

Maybe it's that last jolt of coffee that's messing up my perception,
but I'm getting the feeling that this thread is going to tilt towards
LA/OC bashing at any second. It's easy to make smarmy statements
about any town when you don't live there; nobody will ever catch me
talking about San Diego or the Bay Area in that manner unless it's in
reference to the snobbishness of some of the residents towards LA.

Does it really matter, except to the original linguistic researcher
who started this, whether we say "the" in front of a freeway number?

Sheesh.
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