Jerry Stuckle wrote on 12/22/2017 10:24 PM:
On 12/22/2017 9:33 PM, rickman wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote on 12/22/2017 8:18 PM:
On 12/22/2017 7:39 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2017-12-22, Charles Richmond wrote:

On 12/22/2017 2:24 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:25:11 +0000, Brian Reay wrote:

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As a child, I had relatives who lived within 6 or 7 miles of us and
their dialect was quite different. Relatives of a similar age who lived
closer didn't show the same differences. At times it really was a bit of
an issue.

I had a high school teacher who said that her Italian husband's
home village had a similar thing: the dialect of the people across the
river was quite different.

Back in the bad old days, two houses on different sides of the same
freeway... a phone call from one house to the other... was a
long-distant toll call !!! That is sort of analogous to speaking
dialects !!! :-)

I heard about a hotel in California that straddled area code
boundaries - it was long distance to call from one end of the
building to the other.


I haven't heard that, but it's almost assuredly an urban legend. The phone
company is not going to create two separate accounts and run lines from two
different offices to the same building.

The town of Lloydminster sits right on the Alberta/Saskatchewan
border. There's some interesting billing there.


Is there? Phone companies don't always follow political boundaries (neither
does the U.S. Postal Service).

I met a kid in college who had a hard time at the state university. He
lived in the state, but the post office gave them a delivery address from
a post office in a different state. I think it was finally resolved, but
they had to bring the deed and other documents. I would think a state
drivers license with his mailing address would be enough proof of the
state he lived in. The DMV isn't going to give you a license if you are
out of state.


Yes, I can definitely believe that. Even here my mailing address is a city
"which" doesn't exist (most of the county, including my "city", is
unincorporated). And many people around here have mailing addresses in an
incorporated city while living in an unincorporated part of the county, or
vice versa.

What we don't have is people in Maryland with Virginia addresses or vice
versa, but that's to be understood. There's a river separating the two
(same with DC and Virginia). But I don't know of anyone in DC with Maryland
mailing addresses or vice versa. I wouldn't doubt it happens, though.

But if his mailing address is in another state, how did he get the driver's
license? What did he have to do to prove his residency?

It was MD and Delaware. I don't know how he got the license. Likely they
knew he was in MD because the state knows exactly who needs to pay taxes
ect. The University wasn't tapped into any of that so they had their own
rules!

You'll have to ask the kid, this was over 40 years ago when I was an
undergraduate and U of Md was a very big and bizarre place for me.

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Rick C

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