left right stuff

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:04:35 -0400, Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:

>I have finally realized that I myself have called both types of turns
>"jug handles", when to me only one is -- pull off to the right before
>the intersection, bear left to proceed at right angles to the
>original direction, and cross the intersection.  The Bedford
>Rd./Hartwell Rd. and Route 9 intersections are of this type.  The
>example I gave of Rte 2/Bedford Rd. is of the other type -- proceed
>past the intersection and make a 270 degree right turn -- is not, and
>I would call it a clover-leaf exit.

I thought a "cloverleaf" configuration required one road passing over
another one (and typically involves major highways). That's implied in the
definitions given by OED, AHD, and RHUD, though not MWCD or Encarta.


--Ben Zimmer