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Old 09-22-2007, 04:41 PM
 
Location: Dayton OH
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Only people in Southern California do that. Here, it's just "80" or "101" or sometimes "highway 5" because it's so far out there.
This is true. I lived most of my life in San Francisco area, but 7+ years ago when I moved to a job in southern california I immediately noticed the local way of calling highways or freeways as in "the 5" or "the 405" or "the 91". How odd that a unique "local highway dialect" has evolved, evidence that in southern cal, the cars and the highways are so deep rooted in everyday life.
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Old 09-22-2007, 04:51 PM
 
Location: Everywhere
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This is true. I lived most of my life in San Francisco area, but 7+ years ago when I moved to a job in southern california I immediately noticed the local way of calling highways or freeways as in "the 5" or "the 405" or "the 91". How odd that a unique "local highway dialect" has evolved, evidence that in southern cal, the cars and the highways are so deep rooted in everyday life.
No, once again, we in the Pac NW are also "THE" people
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Old 09-22-2007, 11:24 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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Really? I've never heard anybody say just "25." I've always heard "eye-twenty-five," "eye-seventy," "see-four-seventy," "highway thirty-six," etc.
I guess we travel in different circles. People do differentiate sometimes I-25 vs highway 36. I never caught on to the "highway" designation because that's not what they say in Pennsylvania, where I learned to drive. Old habits die hard. (They say "route", pronouonced "root".)
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Old 09-22-2007, 11:53 PM
 
Location: St. Louis, MO
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How about expressions like "the fifty-one freeway" (for AZ state route 51)? It's a California thing mainly, and has also spread into Phoenix and Las Vegas. Pretty much everywhere else in "the west," people do not say "THE." If you talk like that in Colorado, people will know instantly you're from California.
Very interesting you mention it being a California thing. I remember during a 24 episode in Los Angeles, Jack Bauer was instructing a friend to "take the 10 east" It must be a western thing because over here we would just call it I-10 or 10. And we do differentiate between U.S. Routes and interstate routes, calling U.S. Routes Highways and interstates interstates, although I've heard people call interstate highways just highways which can get extremely confusing.
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Old 09-23-2007, 12:09 AM
 
Location: In exile, plotting my coup
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Funny, but when I lived out in LA, for whatever reason, I never noticed this. Looking back on it though, I realize that people did do this, and it does seem to be an LA-specific thing.
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Old 09-23-2007, 03:04 AM
 
Location: Henderson NV
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I started wishing I was in Upstate New York again where the weather was cooler and the scenery was greener. Green scenery means people.
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Old 09-23-2007, 03:10 AM
 
Location: the best coast
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actually referencing the is typically a southern california thing. You rarley here northern californians saying im taking THE 680 or THE 580 or the 880.
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Old 09-23-2007, 05:43 AM
 
Location: Everywhere
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actually referencing the is typically a southern california thing. You rarley here northern californians saying im taking THE 680 or THE 580 or the 880.
maybe you did not have enough freeways and highways to get "the" specific
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Old 09-23-2007, 07:10 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles-213.323.310.818/San Diego-619.858.760
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This goes both ways. Why do people out of the west call it the I-5 or whatever?
We call it the "The 5" becaue "The" refers to a noun, which in this case the noun is the 5 freeway. Not all freeways in California are interstate and thats why we dont regulary use the "I" when we refer to them.
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Old 09-23-2007, 12:44 PM
 
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This goes both ways. Why do people out of the west call it the I-5 or whatever?
We call it the "The 5" becaue "The" refers to a noun, which in this case the noun is the 5 freeway. Not all freeways in California are interstate and thats why we dont regulary use the "I" when we refer to them.
This is what I was thinking! I say "the" too and I'm NOT from CA! I'm a native Phoenician. We have loops, state routes, and interstates. So, instead of saying "state route 51", I say "the 51". I didn't know it was a CA thing.
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