Van Wyck (Expwy) pronunciation: settled!

15th August 2003, 09:27 PM

and one from Great Neck.

michael

"JohnDoe" <jd@home.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:51:57 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>
> >I bet that's a humorous allusion. Paul & Art aren't from Manhattan, are
> >they? That was the first I ever heard of that name for it.
> I believe one of them is from queens

16th August 2003, 06:53 AM

hiram wrote:
>
> and one from Great Neck.
>
> michael
>
> "JohnDoe" <jd@home.com> wrote in message
> news:0jrqjv8hi9nqa0uc1aj9nh985vv4gpmda1@...
> > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:51:57 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> > <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >I bet that's a humorous allusion. Paul & Art aren't from Manhattan, are
> > >they? That was the first I ever heard of that name for it.
> > I believe one of them is from queens

Then the claim that "people from Queens call it the Queensboro[ugh] and
people from Manhattan call it the 59th Street Bridge" is further
disproven, no?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net