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From: Everdell@aol.com
List Editor: H-SHEAR Editor Peter Knupfer <repub@h-net.msu.edu>
Editor's Subject: the DC mall
Author's Subject: Re: "the mall" in DC
Date Written: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 07:48:20 EST
Date Posted: Fri, 26 Feb 1998 18:20:48 -0500

I think the Mall was named for the one in London, a ceremonial street,
often used in coronation parades.  Not so good a precedent, that, but
the subsequent history of the word in America has certainly
demonarchized it.

-Bill Everdell, Brooklyn

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