Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

Andrew Chaney wrote:

>On Thursday, March 22, 2001, at 06:17 AM, Steg Belsky wrote:
>
>> Us USAians call roundabouts "traffic circles", and here in the USA they
>> go counter-clockwise.
>
>I didn't know they existed in the US.>

Not much anymore, though still found in older cities.  Given the way we
drive here, they would be a definite hazard nowadays. But fun to navigate on
a motorcycle! When we began building many 4-lane and divided highways after
WW II, they were replaced by the cloverleaf intersection. That confused a
lot of people at first (turn right to go left??), but it's second nature
now.