On Feb 10, 2008 5:50 AM, Andrew MacKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 8:38 PM, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/02/2008, Martin Trautmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > wiseLYNX wrote: > > > > There is even an > > > > italian expression, "viale alberato" which specifically describes an > > > > avenue with tree lines.. > > > > > > Could an avenue exist without tree lines? > > > > not in english - it explicitly means a road with trees. although there > > are plenty of roads in aus/nz called avenues, with no trees.....damn > > colonials, mangling the language.... > > In Canada and the US, "Avenue" is usually meaningless. Sometimes > Avenue is exclusively used to refer to roads that go in a certain > direction (like north/south in New York City) but in Toronto Canada, > roads of all types are arbitrarily called "street", "avenue", > "boulevard", "drive", etc. with no rhyme or reason. It definitely has > nothing to do whether there are trees in the middle. > > Perhaps this is true in the UK but it definitely isn't true in Canada or the > US. > The same generally applies in the UK, although minus boulevard.
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