<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 00:08, Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com">gdt@lexort.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What about a grassy area surrounded by streets. We call that "town<br>
common" usually (even though people may not bring their animals to graze<br>
on it), but we would not call it a square, almost always. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Could be a common or a park, depending. Not usually a square, though.</div><div>Not with grass. I'm not entirely sure why, but that's how it seems to be.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I have concluded that we have very few squares in the US,<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can think of one US city square which has "square" in the name</div><div>(not square shaped, though) that is rather well-known. If you</div><div>can't think of it the ball will drop eventually, at midnight on Dec 31st.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>