> In article news.evilcabal.org>,
> "Wickeddoll®" yahoo.com> wrote:
>

>> "Frank R.A.J. Maloney" ..

>>> Forge wrote:

>>>>>> Either way, that's an inaccurate description of the "Winter" cities.

>>>>> They're suburbs. It's painfully obvious just looking at a map.
>>>>>
>>>>> They may not have started that way but that's not uncommon.

>>>> Uh-uh. A "suburb" is an area still governed by that city. Winter Park and
>>>> Winter Haven (which is MILES AND MILES from the edges of Orlando) each
>>>> have their own city council and their own distinct borders. Winter Park
>>>> was founded only a decade or two after Orlando was officially called
>>>> Orlando. And of course, at that time they were MILES apart, but both grew
>>>> until their borders touch in the vicinity of the old Naval Training
>>>> Center (which is now a giganto development of condos and townhomes,
>>>> naturally). Orlando's "suburbs" include Colonialtown and an
>>>> unofficially-declared "Little Saigon" near downtown, College Park to the
>>>> north of downtown, and yeah, Pine Hills to the west. A tick further west
>>>> and you're in Apopka, and that too is a separate municipality. Please
>>>> note that saying something is so, over and over again, does not make it
>>>> so. Thanks.
>>>>

>>> Sorry, but it's not the way the term is used in these precincts. All the
>>> smaller cities around Seattle are considered suburbs by one and all here.
>>> Possibly Bellevue is the exception, since it's grown up into something
>>> like a stand-alone city and has an important business district,
>>> industries, and entertainment resources. But the major role of cities like
>>> Kent, Auburn, Renton, Burien (near where I live in unincorporated King
>>> County), SeaTac, and Tukwila, all south of Seattle proper, is to provide a
>>> place for people to live when they're not working in Seattle.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Frank in Seattle

>> Feh - sounds like a broad term that's being used to describe living out of
>> the congested, dirty, crime-filled main parts of a large city.
>>
>> What people may call it doesn't mean that's what it truly is.
>>
>> People say "irregardless" all the time, which is incorrect, no matter how
>> popular it is. "Ain't" is now in the dictionary, as a nonstandard, because
>> it's such a popular word, but "nonstandard" means it's commonly used.
>> Nowhere does a dictionary say it's the *right* word to use.
>>
>> By dictionary definition, much of the things we say everyday are inaccurate.
>> (I'm guilty of using lazy English myself) The thing is to not *insist* the
>> popular meaning is correct.
>>
>> Natalie

>
> So you're saying it ain't a suburb irregardless of what the Franks says?
>