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- From: brock@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bradley W. Brock)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: K Street
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 20:18:33 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
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- References: <1992Dec29.200007.2635@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Dec29.200007.2635@microsoft.com> frankm@microsoft.com (Frank
- R.A.J. Maloney) writes:
- > I think Main Street does qualify. The reference has got to be the
- > Sinclair Lewis novel, the location being Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.
- > Fictional, yes, but also a powerful symbol, as powerful as any of the
- > "real" streets mentioned here.
-
- I think it's the other way around; Lewis used this phrase because it was a
- powerful symbol. Webster's dates the phrase to 1598.
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- Bradley W. Brock, Department of Mathematics
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