The West
See also: California English- barrow pit (esp. Rocky Mountains) – a ditch to conduct water off a surface road
- davenport (widespread) - couch or sofa
- pop (widespread in West and North) - carbonated beverages; soda predominates in California, Arizona, southern Nevada
- snowmachine (Alaska) – a motor vehicle for travel over snow. Outside Alaska known as a snowmobile
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Famous quotes containing the words the west and/or west:
“O, there’s a wind a-blowing, a-blowing from the west,
And that of all the winds is the one I like the best,
For it blows at our backs, and it shakes our pennon free,
And it soon will blow us home to the old countrie.”
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
“Listen, my friend, I’ve just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”
—Patrick Buchanan (b. 1938)
“Anyone with a real taste for solitude who indulges that taste encounters the dangers of any other drug-taker. The habit grows. You become an addict.... Absorbed in the visions of solitude, human beings are only interruptions. What voice can equal the voices of solitude? What sights equal the movement of a single day’s tide of light across the floor boards of one room? What drama be as continuously absorbing as the interior one?”
—Jessamyn West (1902–1984)