2025-03-17
53 分钟You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
I'm Grant Barrett.
And I'm Martha Barnett.
And Grant,
you remember that conversation we had not too long ago about towns and cities that have very...
very short names, like even one or two letters.
Right.
There was the town in France.
It was just the letter Y, or called YGREC in French.
Just Y. Right.
And the reason was that there were rows that intersected in a Y. And what's really interesting about that is that several of our listeners wrote to tell us that there is a Y,
Arizona, that is named for the same reason.
has two major highways,
state routes 85 and 86 that originally intersected in a Y. And they weren't allowed to just use one letter,
so they called the town Y, W-H-Y.
Why Arizona?
Because it has beautiful landscapes.
That's why.
That's right.
And a dry heat.