The plural of "plat" 'dish', though written as "plats", is often pronounced as "plas". City, town or village plats show subdivisions into blocks with streets and alleys. The original plats for the development subdivided the into lots. It is recorded in county plats in 1876 through 1896. Menage petitioned the City Council to accept his Prospect Park plats in 1884. The meadows, pastures and grass plats are as green as leeks. It was typical of Midwestern town plats in the 1830s. The inside was clad in brown hardboard, with aluminum plats under the windows. The first plats for Seattle were filed on May 23, 1853. The first plats in the new Uplake neighborhood were sold in 1954. Particularly in New England, this system was supplemented by drawing town plats. Additional plats were added over the next several years. However, it was designated a square, not a traffic circle, on the city's original plats. Plats bruts (, literally "Dirty Dishes") was a sitcom broadcast by TV3.