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Timeline for X subway line vs subway line X

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Oct 18, 2019 at 18:56 history edited Jeff Zeitlin CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 18, 2019 at 18:55 comment added Jeff Zeitlin @TypeIA - Yes, most of the examples that I'd been aware of for line x were actually translations from the French (Montreàl, Paris), Spanish (Madrid, Buenos Aires), or German (Berlin); I specifically wanted to limit it to English because this is English Language Learners...
Oct 18, 2019 at 18:44 comment added TypeIA (The Métro is a bad example since they speak French there... oops)
Oct 18, 2019 at 18:30 comment added TypeIA I agree that this is highly regional, and that the standard phrasing differs in each city. Chicago has "(color) line" and the Paris Métro has both numbers and colors for each line.
Oct 18, 2019 at 17:56 history answered Jeff Zeitlin CC BY-SA 4.0