Hope that Stan in the Prescott Valley area don't feel left out. Tom H. -----Original Message----- From: sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Dickson Sent: 01/31/2006 12:37 PM To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sac-board] Re: 2006 SAC Letterhead 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