Two more things

[dira]

One, a sheepish observation I meant to include yesterday: since writing a story in which Ray Person removes his gloves by biting the fingertips, I have become 100% more likely to remove my gloves by biting the fingertips. /o\


Two, a question for Californians: if a person did not happen to know the local name of the highway she was on, because of reasons, but did know that it was (California) State Road 3, what would she call it? Not the 3, presumably. California 3? State Road 3? 3? This situation would never arise because non-numerical names are printed on all the highway signs?

Comments

[exceptinsects]

I'm a San Diego native--we do use "the" before most numbered roads, especially large ones. Very few of them have names, and if they do, we don't really use them. Smaller country roads are more likely to be "highway 78". I've never seen any lettered roads in CA.
Let me know if you have any specific roads in mind and I'll try to help!

ETA: I don't think I've ever heard anyone say STATE highway 3, it would just be highway 3. We also don't say route 3.