The Dialect Survey — which asked people how they pronounced words and what they called things — has released results, showing US national distribution of various regionalisms:
60. What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road?
a. berm (3.65%)
b. parking (1.28%)
c. tree lawn (1.96%)
d. terrace (0.46%)
e. curb strip (8.24%)
f. beltway (0.15%)
g. verge (2.99%)
h. I have no word for this (69.07%)
i. other (12.20%)
(3919 respondents)
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