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 word west:
“O native country, repossessed by thee!
For, rather than I’ll to the West return,
I’ll beg of thee first here to have mine urn.
Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall;
Give thou my sacred relics burial.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“This place is the longest running farce in the West End.”
—Cyril Smith (b. 1928)