on 7/17/01 10:00 AM, Jill Jones at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Candice, A bit left of topic but you may know - sort of near your neck of
> the woods. If a South Carolina number plate has the the word 'Apportioned'
> on it, what would that mean? Was dining in a pseudo-American bar - called
> Arizona, no less - (like you have pseudo-Australian ones over there, I
> believe) and there were all sorts of North American number plates affixed to
> the wall (well, mainly US with the odd Canadian). I got Sunshine State and
> The Garden State and Famous Potatoes and Live Free or Die and 10,000 Lakes
> even. But Apportioned? Not what you'd call snappy.
What a great query! I'll do my best to answer it, but if there are any
southeys on the list, do correct me, please. "Apportioned"--unsnappy as you
note--isn't the state motto as are all the others you cite above: Sunshine
State=Florida(?), Garden State=New Jersey (kid you not), Famous
Potatoes=Idaho(?), Live Free or Die (my home state of "better dead than red"
New Hampshire), and 10,000 Lakes=? (one of the upper-Midwestern Great Lakes
states, presumably--Michigan? Wisconsin? Minnesota?). North Carolina's motto
is "First in Flight" (a claim disputed by Ohio, I believe), but I don't know
offhand what South Carolina's is (Second in Flight?).
"Apportioned" appears on the plates of trucks and other interstate-commerce
vehicles and has something to do with taxation under such border-crossing
conditions, I gather.
Okay, throw me on the barbie and let the flaming begin!
Candice
