AFS Cinema
Overlooked Opportunity
RECEIVED Wed., Dec. 26, 2018
Dear Editor,
I think we may be overlooking an opportunity with the whole Manchaca/Menchaca renaming issue ["Would You Like to Swap a Vowel?" News, Oct. 5]. We already have Koenig/Highway 290/Allandale/Northland/Bull Creek Road/RM 2222, and we have a whole set of streets named South First through South Seventh that run perpendicular to First through Seventh streets. What we could do is change one-quarter of Manchaca Road to Menchaca Road, one-quarter to Maenchaca Lane, one-quarter to Minchaca Parkway *AND* continue to pronounce all of it "Man-shack." Maybe TxDOT would even change the spelling on exit signs on westbound Ben White but not on eastbound. That should confuse some people!
I think we may be overlooking an opportunity with the whole Manchaca/Menchaca renaming issue ["Would You Like to Swap a Vowel?" News, Oct. 5]. We already have Koenig/Highway 290/Allandale/Northland/Bull Creek Road/RM 2222, and we have a whole set of streets named South First through South Seventh that run perpendicular to First through Seventh streets. What we could do is change one-quarter of Manchaca Road to Menchaca Road, one-quarter to Maenchaca Lane, one-quarter to Minchaca Parkway *AND* continue to pronounce all of it "Man-shack." Maybe TxDOT would even change the spelling on exit signs on westbound Ben White but not on eastbound. That should confuse some people!
David Horton