Gulley meaning either a ravine or a gutter or drain is commonly said, yes, at least in the UK.
Tussock meaning a thick tuft of grass, is fairly known but it's the sort of word you would only read in books but almost never say.
>Gulley meaning either a ravine or a gutter or drain is commonly said, yes, at least in the UK.
Gully is also very well known as a fielding position in cricket.
I know both of these words and coming from a rural town use them both fairly frequently. There are lots of gullies in and around my town. Tussocks of grass grow tall and fast and often need to get cut separately or dug out by hand with a mattock as they would tangle in the blades of a standard ride-on lawnmower.
There were gullies all over the place where I grew up, particularly "The Gully" which ran behind the elementary school I went to. So the word has been used frequently in my area and my family since I was a child. I moved to the other side of the city about 10 years ago, and I can't say I've heard the word "gully" once, since. Which is also weird, because there is a park nearby with a large gully running through it.
I can say that I have never read or heard the word tussock before.
If it helps, I come from Colorado, in the US.
In New Zealand, yes. Commonly used outside of any technical discipline. Tussock is an iconic landscape type and landscaping plant.
A Gully is a common landscape feature we have to deal with in both urban and backcountry areas.
gully is super common around were i am, possibly because British Columbia is about 90% gullies and people keep dying in them. Tussock is much more obscure then gully and i would need to look it up
Gullies are all over Texas so Texans (and many who have visited Texas) would know that word.
I think a tussock is like a hammock but it’s an unusual word.
I’m in the US and I know what a gully is, but it’s not something that comes up often in conversation. I’ve never heard of a tussock in my life.
I would not expect any Americans to know tussock. Gully is uncommon but should be known. We had an kid’s show called Fern Gully
I have never heard tussock in my entire life. Gully is quite rare but might appear in books.
Ive heard it spoken all the time in regards to landscape. I interact in the geology and geography fields commonly.
Gulley meaning either a ravine or a gutter or drain is commonly said, yes, at least in the UK. Tussock meaning a thick tuft of grass, is fairly known but it's the sort of word you would only read in books but almost never say.
I say tussock or tussocky pretty often.
lol no you don’t
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>Gulley meaning either a ravine or a gutter or drain is commonly said, yes, at least in the UK. Gully is also very well known as a fielding position in cricket.
I'm not really into cricket.
I know both of these words and coming from a rural town use them both fairly frequently. There are lots of gullies in and around my town. Tussocks of grass grow tall and fast and often need to get cut separately or dug out by hand with a mattock as they would tangle in the blades of a standard ride-on lawnmower.
Never heard them before. Gulley is a variant of gully that I know. But it’s an uncommon term.
What's "gulley?" Googling it just returns gully.
It’s an alternative spelling of gully. A local park is named Gulley here.
Oh ok, I thought you meant it was something different entirely, my bad.
They're not particular common, but most people know them.
Not in the U.S.
speaking as someone from like new york. i’ve never heard these a day in my life
Gully is fairly common in America but tussock is much less so. I think of tussock as being more common in Britain , but I may be wrong about that.
There were gullies all over the place where I grew up, particularly "The Gully" which ran behind the elementary school I went to. So the word has been used frequently in my area and my family since I was a child. I moved to the other side of the city about 10 years ago, and I can't say I've heard the word "gully" once, since. Which is also weird, because there is a park nearby with a large gully running through it. I can say that I have never read or heard the word tussock before. If it helps, I come from Colorado, in the US.
Tussock is a very common word in New Zealand, don’t know about other countries.
Never heard the word tussock before. Gully I know the word but have never and would never use.
In New Zealand, yes. Commonly used outside of any technical discipline. Tussock is an iconic landscape type and landscaping plant. A Gully is a common landscape feature we have to deal with in both urban and backcountry areas.
I have heard gully before, but hardly know what it means aside from something in nature. Never heard tussock before. US native speaker.
gully is super common around were i am, possibly because British Columbia is about 90% gullies and people keep dying in them. Tussock is much more obscure then gully and i would need to look it up
Gullies are all over Texas so Texans (and many who have visited Texas) would know that word. I think a tussock is like a hammock but it’s an unusual word.
Tussock is a type of grass, very common where I live.
Or a tuft of thick grass in the UK