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

[marycontrary]

I drive on 101 all the time, and I've taken 1 up from LA to enjoy the coastline. I take 1, drive 1, but I might call it the 1 or the 101 if I were specifying a road to someone else. I live in the South Bay -- I could walk due North from work to the south end of the Bay and be back before my lunch break was over. (Upthread people say Highway 1, not just 1. Um, maybe? I don't take it much, I can believe I'm overgeneralizing from 101 & 280.)

Oh hey, here's one that I've noticed: there are a lot of Spanish names scattered around, and some of them got re-pronounced as English words, and now the people who try to say them with Spanish consonants are the ones who are wrong. (But everyone will still know what you mean.) For example, there is a dorm called Junipero Serra, pronounced jew-NIP-er-oh, and you might not bother correcting people who said hu-ni-per-oh. It's always El Camino Re-al, not real, though.

[montanaharper]

there are a lot of Spanish names scattered around, and some of them got re-pronounced as English words, and now the people who try to say them with Spanish consonants are the ones who are wrong.

Like San Pedro (the city). Locals pronounce it "san peedro" and if you pronounce it correctly you get weird looks.