Maryland's largest airport will be renamed in honor of the late Thurgood Marshall, the nation's first black Supreme Court justice, under legislation signed into law this afternoon by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R).(from the Washington Post)The law calls for the airport to be rechristened as the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. A three-member state panel on which Ehrlich sits must give final approval to the change, which is expected later this year.
Wow, that's a long name...why not just drop the "Baltimore-Washington International" part? In time people will stop calling it BWI, but not if BWI is still part of the name.
Except for me.
Not out of stubbornness or disrespect...I'm just bad at remembering changes. My brain must lack a certain elasticity.
For example: the Washington basketball team (currently playing the Heat in the playoffs). I know they are the Wizards; I thought the name change was a good idea; it isn't unusual for me to slip up and say the Bullets.
Fifteen years ago a chain of Washington-area drug stores, Peoples, was bought out by CVS. Guess where I pick up my prescriptions?
I still cross to Potomac over the Cabin John Bridge.
Posted by Nic at May 10, 2005 09:08 PMI've never heard you refer to 270 as 70-S.
Posted by: Victor at May 11, 2005 07:26 AMI'm not that old!
Posted by: nic at May 11, 2005 07:32 AMIf you hang on long enough, some names change back. The US Air Arena went back to being the Capital Centre for a short time. Right before they demolished it.
Posted by: Karen at May 11, 2005 09:00 AM