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I'm British and I didn't recognise either term. I had to head for Wikipedia to translate to British English ("central reservation").
by cannam 10y ago
I'm British and I didn't recognise either term. I had to head for Wikipedia to translate to British English ("central reservation").
- cafard 10y agoI was wrong. My thinking seems to have been "I've seen that before; the British have a different term; ergo it's British." In fact, "neutral ground" was familiar from Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer, which is set in New Orleans.