Reporters saying "TARMAC" how stupid!!

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:07:50 -0600, "tscottme"
wrote:

I fully expect to see some silly CBS reporter describing a lorry crash
near
Denver or a shortage of water closets for new homes.

I have heard both these terms (well, lorry, not lorry crash) from
American friends who spent their working lives in Cambridge MA.

More so than other cities Boston seems to pick up a decent amount of
British/Irish usage, but I've been here ten years and never heard "lorry"
used by a native American... I mean someone born in America, not a casino
operator. It might just be an affectation, as New Englanders are definitely
of the "European = More Sophisticated" school of thought.

-cwk.