[PRCo] Re: "Machine"

[Macmarka at cs.com]

In a message dated 11/30/01 3:57:33 PM !!!First Boot!!!, fschnei at supernet.com 
writes:

<< 
 Fred and all:  The word "machine" was deliberately used because I was
 asking all of you to think in a different era.  It isn't necessarily
 Pittsburghese.  Older Lancastrians used that term too.
 
 Fred III
  >>
When I was a kid in Pittsburgh, my Grandmother, who was Italian, Used the 
term "machina"(pronounced makeena) when referring to automobiles. She did 
call the trolleys "streetcars" though. I am to this day a fan of streetcars 
because of her. She took me for my first ride.                                  
                                                                                
                                                    Mark McGuire