North American Regional Dialects and Accents (2016)

Re:North American Regional Dialects and Accents (2016) by int_19h on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @07:34PM (#15234035)

Here in WA, it seems that for single- and double-digit numbers, people usually prepend the prefix - so it's also I-5, not just 5; and I-90, not 90.

But for multi-digit, it's virtually never there - it's 405 and 520 (without "the"!), not I-405 and WA-520.

Now that I think about it, it's probably not so much about the number of digits, as it is about the number of words. So I-90 gets the prefix because "ninety" is a single word, but I-95 somehow sounds strange.

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Re:North American Regional Dialects and Accents (2016) by spc476 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:05PM (#15234917)

Up in Detroit (I have family there) almost everyone talks about 75 (I-75). Down here in South Florida (where I live), it's always I-95. Just "95" sounds strange to me, as well as "I-75".

I guess it's what you grew up listening to.

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