[sac-board] Re: 2006 SAC Letterhead
- From: Paul Dickson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:37:04 -0700
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:04:09 -0700, Glen Walker wrote:
> Just for my own information, why do you use the word "Metro"? At first
> glance it suggests that the club is only for individuals within a boundary.
It comes from the shortened version of metropolitan, which definitions in
turn points to "metropolitan area" and metropolis, the latter which is:
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
metropolis
n 1: a large and densely populated urban area; may include
several independent administrative districts; "Ancient
Troy was a great city" [syn: {city}, {urban center}]
2: people living in a large densely populated municipality;
"the city voted for Republicans in 1994" [syn: {city}]
So "Metro Phoenix" means "in the vicinity of Phoenix" to me.
-Paul
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