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- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!frankm
- From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
- Subject: Re: K Street
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.054804.29064@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:48:04 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group
- References: <1992Dec29.200007.2635@microsoft.com> <1ht06pINNag@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
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- In article <1ht06pINNag@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> brock@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bradley W. Brock) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- Which Webster's are you using -- the name is a generic,
- after all?
-
- Second: does your dictionary entry say about how Main Street
- was used in 1598, its meaning, its connotations, its symbolic
- load?
-
- --
- Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
- "Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
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