Re: USAGE: subway
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 19:39 |
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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.