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#135978 12/13/04 08:58 PM
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the OED is looking for help:

http://www.oed.com/newsletters/2004-12/appeals.html

maybe you can plausibilize something...



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#135979 12/14/04 01:57 PM
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DARE wants to know what you call that strip of grass (and sometimes trees) between the sidewalk and the curb. Non-USns need not apply:

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html (click on Queries)


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Hi Anna-Betsy ! Tried several times but page wont display- anyway, that area is the "verge" a word I learned many many many many many years ago. Like 65.
Where have you all been?



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