Editing Road verge (section)

==Terminology==
The term ''verge'' has many [[synonym]]s and [[dialect]]al differences. Some [[dialect]]s and [[idiolect]]s lack a specific term for this area, instead using a [[circumlocution]].<ref name="tls">{{cite news|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/the-triumph-of-slang/ |title=The triumph of slang|first=John A. C. |last=Greppin |date=1 February 2002 |work=[[The Times]] Literary Supplement |publisher=Times Newspapers Limited |access-date=10 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_60.html | title = What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road? (Harvard Dialect Survey)}}</ref>

Terms used include:
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* Berm: [[Pennsylvania]], northern [[Indiana]], [[Ohio]], [[Michigan]], [[Wisconsin]], [[New Zealand]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6">{{cite book |title=Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume VI: Contrastive Maps, Index to Entry Labels, Questionnaire, and Fieldwork Data |edition=1st |editor-first=Joan Houston |editor-last=Hall |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0674066533 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer0000unse_a4m8 }}{{page needed|date=June 2022}}</ref>
* Besidewalk<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/fugitives/sidewalk.html|title=Between the sidewalk and the curb|publisher=[[The Atlantic]]|date=7 December 1998|access-date=19 May 2020}}{{dead link|date=February 2021}}</ref>
* Boulevard: [[Detroit, Michigan]]; [[North Dakota]]; [[Minnesota]]; [[Iowa]]; [[Illinois]]; Ohio; [[Wisconsin]]; [[Upper Midwest|United States Upper Midwest]];<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/> [[Winnipeg]], and western [[Canada]];<ref>{{citation|url=http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/boulevard-gardening-guidelines.pdf|title=Boulevard Gardening Guidelines |publisher=City of [[Vancouver]], British Columbia |access-date=28 October 2017}}</ref> [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]];<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 11, 2020|title=TORONTO MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 743, STREETS AND SIDEWALKS, USE OF|url=https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/municode/1184_743.pdf|website=Toronto}}</ref> [[Markham, Ontario]]; [[Kitchener, Ontario]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kitchener.ca/en/resourcesGeneral/Documents/DSD_ENG_C-of-K---Standard-Specifications_November-2017.pdf |title=Standard Specifications, City of Kitchener |access-date=2018-08-28 |archive-date=2018-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828071140/https://www.kitchener.ca/en/resourcesGeneral/Documents/DSD_ENG_C-of-K---Standard-Specifications_November-2017.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Boulevard strip: U.S. Upper Midwest
* Common: New England, generally describes a large strip of grass. Also refers to park-like common-use green spaces in small town centers.
* Curb lawn: [[Kalamazoo, Michigan]];<ref>{{ cite web |url=http://www.kalamazoocity.org/portal/pubserve.php?page_id=312 |title=Departments : Public Services : Public Works : Fall Leaf Collection |publisher=City of Kalamazoo |access-date=2012-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920053125/http://www.kalamazoocity.org/portal/pubserve.php?page_id=312 |archive-date=2012-09-20 }}</ref> [[Elyria, Ohio]];<ref>{{ cite news |url=http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2012/03/26/police-find-man-dead-in-curb-lawn/ |title=Police find man dead in curb lawn |publisher=The Chronicle-Telegram |author=Rona Proudfoot |date=March 26, 2012 |access-date=2012-06-15 }}</ref> [[Miami County, Ohio]];<ref>{{ cite web |url=http://www.troyohio.gov/whotocall.html |title=Who Do I Call? |publisher=[[Troy, Ohio|City of Troy]] |access-date=2012-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510152625/http://www.troyohio.gov/whotocall.html |archive-date=2012-05-10 }}</ref> [[Greenville, South Carolina]]<ref>{{ cite web |url=http://www.greenvillesc.gov/publicworks/EngineeringDSM.aspx |title=Design and Specifications Manual |publisher=City of Greenville |year=2012 |access-date=2012-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605232652/http://www.greenvillesc.gov/PublicWorks/EngineeringDSM.aspx |archive-date=2012-06-05 }}</ref>
* Curb strip: [[New Jersey]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[North Carolina]], [[Florida]], Ohio, Indiana, [[Massachusetts]], [[Michigan]], [[Iowa]], [[Kansas]], [[Nebraska]], [[Oregon]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Devil strip or devilstrip: [[Akron, Ohio]]; [[Northeast Ohio]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid%3A79961|title=Mr. Smarty Pants|work=[[The Austin Chronicle]]|date=2000-12-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Dictionary of American Regional English: Introduction and A-C |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer01arie |url-access=registration |quote=devil strip. |page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer01arie/page/55 55]|author=Cassidy, Frederic Gomes |author2=Hall, Joan Houston  |edition=6th |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1985 |isbn =978-0-674-20511-6 |access-date=2009-03-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Bob |last=Dyer |title=Akron's Grass is One of a Kind |url=http://www.ohio.com/news/dyer/bob-dyer-akron-s-grass-is-one-of-a-kind-1.325843 |work=[[Akron Beacon Journal]] |date=August 8, 2012 |access-date=August 11, 2012 }}</ref> This term was once used more widely to refer to the space between tracks on a streetcar line, a space not wide enough to stand in as cars passed.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Electric Interurban Railways in America |url=https://archive.org/details/electricinterurb00hilt |url-access=registration |first1=George W. |last1=Hilton |first2=John F. |last2=Due |isbn=978-0-8047-4014-2 |publisher=Stanford University Press |date=1960 |page=[https://archive.org/details/electricinterurb00hilt/page/51 51]}}</ref>
* Drivestrip or Drive Strip
* Extension lawn: [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}
* Furniture zone, also landscape zone: a term used by urban planners, indicating its suitability for "[[street furniture]]" such as utility poles and fire hydrants, as well as trees or planters<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/article/370416 |format=PDF |title=Foster Road Transportation & Streetscape Plan |publisher=Office of Transportation, City of [[Portland, Oregon]] |date=9 July 2003 |pages=10–12 and 14–15}}</ref>
* Grassplot: [[East Coast of the United States]], [[Pennsylvania]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Governor’s Strip: [[Delaware]]
* Hellstrip<ref>{{cite book|title=Hellstrip Gardening: Create a Paradise between the Sidewalk and the Curb |first=Evelyn |last=Hadden |others=Photography by Joshua McCullough |publisher=Timber Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-1604693324 }}</ref>
* Island strip: [[Long Island, New York]]{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
*Long acre – a traditional term for wide grassy road verges, used by grazing herds or flocks moving from place to place
* Median: [[Washington (state)|Washington]], [[Oregon]]{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
* Mow strip: SF East Bay Area Northern California 
* Nature strip: [[Australia]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Word Map |url= https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/aus/word/map/search/word/nature%20strip/Gippsland/|work=The Macquarie Dictionary|access-date=2 September 2021}}</ref>
* Neutral ground: [[Gulf Coast of the United States|U.S. Gulf states]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Random House Unabridged Dictionary |year=1997 |publisher=[[Random House]], Inc. |url=http://dictionary.infoplease.com/neutral-ground}}</ref>
* Park strip: [[Ohio]],<ref name="worthington" /> [[Utah]]
* Parking: [[Illinois]], [[Iowa]], [[Western United States]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Parking strip: [[Washington (state)|Washington]], [[Oregon]], [[Utah]], much of [[California]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Parkrow: [[Iowa]], [[Oregon]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ashland.or.us/Page.asp?NavID=13559 |title=Weed Abatement |work=City of Ashland |publisher=City of [[Ashland, Oregon]] |access-date=12 October 2017}}</ref>
* Parkway: [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]]; [[Greater Los Angeles Area|Greater Los Angeles]]; [[San Francisco Bay Area]]; [[West Coast of the United States]]; [[Casper, Wyoming]]; Ohio; [[Illinois]]; [[Missouri]]; [[Florida]]; [[Texas]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/><ref name="WebsterWorld">{{cite book |title=Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language |edition=Second College |year=1970 |editor-last=Guralnik |editor-first=David B. |publisher=The World Publishing Company|title-link=Webster's New World Dictionary }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Parkway Standards|url=https://www.casperwy.gov/government/departments/community_development/code_enforcement/parkway_standards|publisher=Community Development, City of Casper, Wyoming|access-date=24 June 2022}}</ref>
* Parkway strip: [[Austin, Texas]]; [[Fort Collins, Colorado]]<ref name="infernogarden">{{cite web|url=https://www.fcgov.com/gardens/our-gardens/xeric-parkway-strip|title=Xeric Parkway Strip: Xeriscape Plants for Tough Conditions |date= 7 July 2010 |work=The Gardens on Spring Creek |publisher=City of [[Fort Collins, Colorado]] |access-date=10 March 2018}}</ref>
* Planter zone: [[SmartCode]]/New Urbanist terminology<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.transect.org/codes.html|title=Codes & Manuals |publisher=Center for Applied Transect Studies |access-date=19 June 2011}}</ref>
* Planting strip: [[Berkeley, California]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cityofberkeley.info/tree_planting |title=Tree Planting |work=TREES/PARKS |publisher=Parks Division, City of [[Berkeley, California]] |access-date=29 December 2017}}</ref> [[Seattle, Washington]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seattle.gov/utilities/environment-and-conservation/lawn-and-garden/food-gardening/planting-strips |title=Food Gardening |publisher=City of [[Seattle, Washington]] |access-date=2 November 2019}}</ref>
* Right-of-way: [[Wisconsin]], [[Illinois]]
* Road allowance: [[Ottawa|Ottawa, Canada]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ottawa.ca/en/social_com/rural/roadmaintenance/ruralroads/index.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115155148/http://ottawa.ca/en/social_com/rural/roadmaintenance/ruralroads/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date= 15 January 2013 |title= Roads |work=City of Ottawa |publisher=City of [[Ottawa]], Ontario |year=2012 |access-date= 24 July 2012}}</ref>
* Road verge: [[Australia]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lgam.info/nature-strip|title=Nature Strip|work=The Local Government & Municipal Knowledge Base |access-date=22 March 2012}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=March 2018}}
* Roadside: Australia<ref name="pandora.nla.gov.au">{{cite web |url=http://www.indigoshire.vic.gov.au/residents/natural-resource-management/roadside-management/roadside-conservation-values/index.html |title=Roadside Conservation Values |work=Indigo Shire Council |publisher=[[Shire of Indigo|Indigo Shire]] Council |date=2007 |access-date=10 March 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20071108214700/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/79254/20071109-0847/www.indigoshire.vic.gov.au/residents/natural-resource-management/roadside-management/roadside-conservation-values/index.html |archive-date=8 November 2007 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
* Shoulder<ref>Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, copyright 2007, page 1389</ref>
* Sidewalk lawn: [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]<ref name="dickstein">{{cite news |last=Dickstein |first=Corey |date=20 July 2009 |title=Sidewalk lawns now residents' responsibility |work=Savannah Morning News |publisher=Gatehouse Media, LLC |url=http://www.savannahnow.com/article/20090720/NEWS/307209897}}</ref>
* Sidewalk plot: [[Virginia]], [[Maryland]], [[Indiana]], [[Tennessee]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Sidewalk strip: [[California]], [[North Carolina]], [[Oregon]], [[Utah]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
* Street lawn: Ohio<ref name="worthington">{{cite web|url=http://www.worthington.org/index.aspx?NID=299|title=Street Trees / Tree Lawn|work=Worthington |publisher=City of [[Worthington, Ohio]] |access-date= 31 August 2012}}</ref>
* Subway: [[Western New York]]{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* Swale: [[South Florida metropolitan area|South Florida]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ci.ftlaud.fl.us/life/urban_forestry/treeadopt.htm |title=Urban Forestry - Adopt-a-Tree Program |work=City of Fort Lauderdale |publisher=City of [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]] |access-date=29 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308010601/http://ci.ftlaud.fl.us/life/urban_forestry/treeadopt.htm |archive-date=8 March 2012 }}</ref>
* Terrace: [[Great Lakes region (North America)|U.S. Great Lakes region]], [[Missouri]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Tree bank: The [[Fox Valley (Illinois)|Fox River Valley]] including [[Elgin, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite web |title= An Ordinance Regulating Tree Bank Parking (1976)|url=https://lf-portal.cityofelgin.net/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=72104&dbid=0&repo=Elgin-Public&cr=1|access-date=2024-12-08}} It states that "'Tree bank' means that area between the curb, the extended curb or lateral roadway line and the property line." Nearby localities with similar references include St. Charles, Geneva, East Dundee, West Dundee, Carpentersville and Algonquin. </ref>
* Tree belt: [[Massachusetts]]<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/>
* Tree box: [[Washington, DC]]<ref>{{cite web |title=More Green Services {{!}} DC |url=https://dc.gov/service/more-green-services |website=dc.gov}}</ref>
* Tree lawn or treelawn: Ohio, Indiana, New York, and elsewhere<ref name="dictionary-vol6"/><ref name="WebsterWorld" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.buffalony.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1845/City-of-Buffalo-Street-Tree-Planting-Guidelines-PDF |title=City Of Buffalo Street Tree Planting Guidelines |work=City Of Buffalo |publisher= City of [[Buffalo, NY]]| access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>
* Verge: [[UK]],<ref name=BBC-verges /> [[New Zealand]], [[South Africa]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openbylaws.org.za/|title=Open By-laws South Africa|website=Open By-laws South Africa|access-date=2020-04-29}}</ref>  Western Australia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verge|title=Verge|access-date= 7 July 2010 |work=Merriam-Webster Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-Webster, Incorporated}}</ref><ref name="WebsterWorld"/>
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