tree lawns; was Re: Off and on

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_60.html
>

Hm. Apparently, every term except "beltway" is used in or around Saint
Louis. But then, I haven't actually *lived* in StL for over fifty
years. Things change.

And the overwhelming majority of respondents *don't* have a word for it.

FWIW, I learned "berm" as the military term for a dike- or levee-like
structure backstopping a rifle range.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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