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Subject: Re: L.A. -- Orange Cty toll road questions? Posted on: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:23:01 -0000

>>> I remember when the term "freeway" really meant something

>> The meaning hasn't changed: A way free of cross traffic.

> Actually, the name relates to "free" as in no toll. That was the big
> "selling point" when they started building them....
>
> http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_speech/v076/76.2geyer.html

However, if you look in the big Oxford English Dictionary, you'll
find actual early uses cited, where the meaning is explained, and
there's nothing about tolls. That beats one writer's idea of what
he thinks the word "clearly" meant.

This is off-topic for the newsgroup, so let's stop now, okay?
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