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Re: USAGE: subway

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 19:39
Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
> I'll point out that there is no >word in the English language other than bush that adequately describes >the bush---and no, forest doesn't cut it
In this part of California we call the areas with low, scrubby vegetation "chaparral" /S&pVr&l/ from spanish "chaparro". Grasslands are "grasslands" or "savanna". Interestingly, chaparro originates from Basque "txapar", and chaparro originally was the term for a European type of scrub oak.