A private taxi service has sprung up in many large cities much to the consternation of the medallion cab companies. It is Called UBER and you can summon your private driver with the touch of your hand held app. The word has German roots and Merriam Webster defines it as "being a superlative example of its kind or class." I happened to grow up on Uber Street in Philadelphia in the 1930s - a tree lined block of brick row houses - it just ran for one block with dead ends which eliminated thru traffic. Our families were a melting pot of Irish, German, Italian, Jewish and Greek. Back then we didn't think of ourselves as "a superlative example of kind or class" - but just maybe we were - thanks to Merriam Webster.
tjs
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