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Re:For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided into Three Separate... by cafard on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:55AM (#13356702)
Isn't "neutral ground" for "median" a British usage?
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Re:For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided into Three Separate... by cannam on Monday January 09, 2017 @10:58AM (#13357227)
I'm British and I didn't recognise either term. I had to head for Wikipedia to translate to British English ("central reservation").
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Re:For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided into Three Separate... by cafard on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:43PM (#13369383)
I was wrong. My thinking seems to have been "I've seen that before; the British have a different term; ergo it's British." In fact, "neutral ground" was familiar from Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer, which is set in New Orleans.
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