June's OT Board Dictionary Launched (was Brittspeak)

[Tracy Hunt]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonya Minton" 
<tminton at d...>
> wrote:
> > annemehr added this to the Brit/American list:
> > ..Verge............Berm
> >  
> > What is this??  I have no idea what a berm is.  
> > Tonya
> > 
> 
> It's the edge of the road (not a street, where you have a curb).  
I'd
> be willing to swear there's another American name for it, but my
> chronic problem of frequently being unable to bring even the most
> common words to mind when I want them once again rears its ugly 
head.
>  This problem is a real pain when I want to tell my kids to do
> something; by the time I think of the word I need, they're long 
gone.
> 
> Oh! Another name for it is "shoulder" (as in "Do Not Pass On 
Shoulder"
> roadsigns)!
> 
> Annemehr
> verbally challenged



That's funny....I've never heard the shoulder of a road called a 
berm.  I always thought a berm was a mound of dirt.  When man-made, 
they are for privacy (really big) or just for looks (when smaller) in 
landscaping (it adds height or prominence to plants).  

I just never know when I'll learn something new on this list!

Tracy
(who suffers from "brain fades" all the time)