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In article <2ogulg$3qt@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
perew@kaiwan.com (Mark Perew) writes:

> The problem with refering to freeways by name, at least in SoCal, is that 
> the names and numbers don't always correspond.  For example, "The San 
> Diego Freeway" applies to all of the 405 and parts of the 5.  The 5 
> carries other names (Santa Ana Freeway, Golden State Highway) which I 
> find confusing.
> 

Try the "Hollywood" freeway. It's the 101 until it hits the 170 in
North Hollywood, where the 101 becomes the Ventura freeway and the
170 becomes the Hollywood freeway even though it goes nowhere near
Hollywood (North Hollywood doesn't count). And the 134 is the Ventura
freeway, til you get to the 101/170 split where it disappears, then
the 101 resumes being the Ventura freeway. Huh?

In article <2ofj7f$apt@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
landauer@morocco.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer) writes:

> Maybe the only people that Pam knows in L.A. are non-natives; it always
> seemed to me that those were the people who use "the" with the highway
> number.  Everyone I knew always used the common names for most of the
> freeways, especially the older ones.
> 
Maybe you just didn't know the right people :)

I'm a native and most everyone I know, except for those whose first
language is not English,  uses "the" before the actual number. It
sounds a little odd (to me) to say "Yeah, take 110 to 101, then get
on 170." Except for I-5 and PCH, most of us here use the article. Few
use the actual freeway name in LA, although I think it's more common
to do that in Orange County. They have a short one named after
Richard Nixon, you know.

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