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Or even garden.


'garden' came into English via Old French but it's ultimately Frankish (another Germanic language) so 'yard' and 'garden' are cognates. Interestingly they have a close sense.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/garden


Thank you. I’m not American and was trying work that out.

I went straight to metric and Middle Metre approximate and is wrong.


"Nasty, British, and Small," screams the Hanging Yards of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_(TV_series)




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