Danke!
My dictionary says both are correct, but if a sward is an area of manicured
green grass, then why does one need green in front of it. The green is
implicit in the definition of sward. Of course the poetic factor would
argue in favor of greensward because of the way it rolls off the tongue. <g>
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/12/2015 8:31 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
>> Point taken. But you might look at the images as giving you a lot of
>> information you do not need to gather for yourself because Nathan already
>> has gathered it for you, thus leaving time to spend lots of time on the
>> cool green swards of Berlin. Do they have cool green swards in Berlin?
>>
>
> In English, when used with "green" it's one word, "greensward", a noun
> found in most dictionaries, or at least their on line versions.
>
> Babylon says the German is "Grünfläche"
>
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