[Ads-l] berm

[Paul A Johnston, Jr]

You mostly have no term for that in Michigan, but if you do, the most frequent term is "berm".  When I spent part of my childhood in Chicago, it's the "parkway"; to my Cleveland-born wife, it's the "tree lawn."

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> From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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> I think I reported that a large fraction of my intro ling students at
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> the U. of Wisconsin-Madison who hailed from the state reported that
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> referred to that strip as a "berm".  I'd never encountered the term
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> New York, New England, or California before moving to Wisconsin in
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>  I call it the strip of grass between the sidewalk and a street, but
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> concede that that's a description, not a name.
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> LH
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> > On May 2, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> > Aha!  The thing without a name!  (Didn't it puzzle many of us some
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> time ago?  Or did someone say "berm" then?)
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> > DARE ... In the Great Lakes it also means the strip of grass
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> the sidewalk and the street. ...
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