[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Okay Mark, here is your free plug for
> the new website; but I did not realize that little strip of WV was
> known as 'Panhandle'; I always thought 'panhandle' was used for the
> northwestern strip of Oklahoma, or perhaps the northernmost section
> of Idaho, but I guess there is no reason it cannot apply to that
> northern wedge of WV as well. Good luck with your web site. PAT]
FYI, the northern end of Texas (everything directly west of Oklahoma) is also commonly referred to as the "Panhandle".
As is Western Florida (more-or-less Panama City to Pensacola, and on west).
Even the far S.E. corner of Missouri is also referred to that way, sometimes.
I've even heard it applied to the far-western part of Maryland.