> > What difference does it make? They no longer allow you to pasture your > livestock there, so is not really a village commons <grin>. > > Interestingly enough my ditionary only lists it as commons, but uses > common in the definition. So the PDML are not the only ones confused > about the term <grin>.
The common/commons in question is the one in Boston. Whatever folks may use, the name on every map I have seen calls the area the Boston Common. Sure, it *should* be called "the commons", based on derivation. And as a general term, either is acceptable (especially around New England). But we aren't talking about commons in general - this is the specific case of that area of public green space near Commonwealth Avenue. The term "Boston Commons" seems to have it's widest use applied to a part of a trendy back bay development (or to some of the hotels). Neither is somewhere I would consider particularly photogenic.
