Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 08:21:04 -0700
From: Allen Maberry maberry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Subject: Re: Another Lexical Item
I call those grassy strips between the sidewalk and the street "parking
strips". I've never heard them called parkways.
Allen
maberry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]u.washington.edu
On Fri, 6 Oct 1995, //www.usa.net/~ague wrote:
Parkways and sidewalks
Within the last 20 years after moving to Colorado Springs, CO, I picked up an
extra definition for parkway, which previously connoted for me wide,
green-scaped, paved roads.
In CS, a lot of neighborhoods have 2 foot to 10 foot strips of grass running
parallel to, and between the sidewalk and the street. These are called
parkways as well.
Have others seen this usage?
-- Jim