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yard or lawn?

Started by allniter89, May 13, 2017, 02:53:35 PM

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allniter89

What do you call that grassy area around your house?
lawn?
yard?
what's grass, I live in the city  :bigass:
We call it the yard

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GaryV

Depends on how good the grass grows.

wanderer2575

Yard, covered with lawn.  Does that make sense?  I'm walking around my yard and thinking that I need to mow the lawn.


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noelbotevera

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Grass.

xcellntbuy

The backyard in the back, the lawn in the front. :hmmm:

corco

Yard, but "mow the lawn"

Truvelo

We call it garden over here.
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1995hoo

Depends on the size of the property. At my parents' house (single-family house, corner lot, no fences) I refer to the lawn. At my house (townhouse in the middle of a row, large hydrangea bush takes up a lot of space out front, back has a fence around it) I refer to the front yard or the backyard, but I would say I'm going outside to cut the grass. I no longer say "mow the lawn" at my house because the hydrangea is big enough that I don't use the mower any more, not enough space to maneuver it, so I use the weed-whacker to cut the grass. If I were at my parents' house I'd say "mow the lawn."
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Both, I've never stuck to either.  Apparently it is "lawn" where I'm from since we have "Lawn Nazis" in Michigan.

DaBigE

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For me, it's been the back yard, front lawn, and the side yard. Don't have a good reason why, other than that's what my parents always called them when it was time to mow.
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The yard is the property as a whole, including trees, shrubs, sheds, and the grass.  Lawn and grass are synonymous.
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slorydn1

Yard....

Unless it needs to cut then its "the grass".
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davewiecking

I mow the lawn, but rake the yard. Same piece of land.

wxfree

To me, a yard is an area, a piece of land, and a lawn is a nice, maintained patch of grass.  A lot of homes around here have yards covered by whatever happens to be growing that occasionally gets mowed.  Some homes have actual lawns; some have yards but no lawns.
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jwolfer

Where i grew up on a barrier island on the Jersey Shore the ground was sandy and grass would not easily grow... Some people had stones as their yard..

One older guy a friend of my grandfather on the next street had a keep of the grass sign.. At 7 years old we thought that was hillarious.

Lawn implies grass.. Yard is the property.. " the house has an acre yard but half if if is still wooded"

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hbelkins

Quote from: wxfree on May 13, 2017, 10:12:06 PM
To me, a yard is an area, a piece of land,

Around here, that would be "a field" unless it is covered by trees, then it's "the woods."


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jakeroot

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I've used "yard", "lawn" and "garden" interchangeably for years. Never had a name for the "front yard" but the "back yard" was often called "out back". Besides the front and back, only one side of the house had grass (other side was rock). That was usually the "side garden".

cjk374

Front yard, back yard, side yard, mow the yard or mow the grass, feed the grass, switch the yard....oh wait.
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Darkchylde

It's a yard, unless you're talking about just the grass, then it's the lawn. (Get that car off the lawn.)

ColossalBlocks

Grassy land that looks like shit.
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