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[shewhomust]

Notice in the 'Victoria Golf' (Victorian themed crazy golf) in Spennymoor's Victoria Jubilee Park:

DO NOT Tread, mosey, hop, trample, step, plod, tiptoe, trot, meander, creep, prance, amble, jog, trudge, march, stomp. toddle, jump, stumble, trod, sprint or walk ON THE PLANTS

Trod? Is that a dialect usage?

Anyway, if you want to do any of those things, don't do it on the plants. Maybe in the school playground?

Comments

[cmcmck]

A 'trod' is a dialect word for the smallest of paths- the sort created by foxes, badgers or wild sheep.

Who knew eh? :o)

[shewhomust]

Good point! I certainly know the expression 'a sheep trod'. But that's not a usage which can dollow 'DO NOT...'

[doubtingmichael]

Odd that they don't forbid "skip".

[shewhomust]

Good point - you mustn't hop or jump, but you can skip.