SC - SC: Troll OT
Brian L. Rygg or Laura Barbee-Rygg
rygbee at montana.com
Wed Mar 8 20:01:23 PST 2000
IIRC, it's "tollbooth", not Trollbooth (though you can't always tell by the
person manning it) and refers to the practice of paying for the construction
and maintenance of a road by charging a fee (toll) to use the road. The
first ones in this country predate pavement.
Raoghnailt
> -Poster: <Elysant at aol.com>
> I wonder where the word "Trollbooth" comes from... Is it a historical
term
> maybe?
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