Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:10:55 -0500

From: "M. Lynne Murphy" 104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA

Subject: Re: lowery, grass strip, etc



I've often wondered when hearing people discuss terms for this

grassy strip why I don't have any name for it and don't remember

ever hearing anybody else call it anything. Ellen's posting made

me wonder if maybe this is significant in itself -- maybe Southerners

or at least Southerners who grew up in cities form a sort of "zero

isogloss" in not having a term? Or maybe my reason for not having

one is like Ellen's -- there weren't many sidewalks in north Jackson.

--Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)



there were lots of these grassy things in my northeastern environs,

but i never had a word for it, and i don't think my folks did either.

my dad would say "you did a lousy job mowing the part next to the

street." no special name.



lynne



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