Wide ones are broadswards?
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:18 AM Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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