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minus-squaredependencyinjectionlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·4 hours agoWe call them pavements in the UK and I kinda think sidewalk is more descriptive. You walk on the side of the road.
minus-squarehangonasecond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 hours agoDown under, it’s usually footpath which I think is even more descriptive
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 minutes agoFootpath makes it sound like it goes through the woods or a field or something.
minus-squareBertuccio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-24 hours agoIn the US basically anything paved is pavement. Asphalt road: Pavement Concrete sidewalk: Pavement Giant parking lot: Pavement Gravel road: Believe it or not - paveme… well that one’s debatable.
minus-squareSwednecklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 hours agoI’d say gravel roads can be argued to be “paved” if it’s really fine gravel that has been properly packed down by repeated driving on it, to the point where it starts looking shiny and sort of like glazed clay
We call them pavements in the UK and I kinda think sidewalk is more descriptive. You walk on the side of the road.
Down under, it’s usually footpath which I think is even more descriptive
Footpath makes it sound like it goes through the woods or a field or something.
In the US basically anything paved is pavement.
Asphalt road: Pavement
Concrete sidewalk: Pavement
Giant parking lot: Pavement
Gravel road: Believe it or not - paveme… well that one’s debatable.
I’d say gravel roads can be argued to be “paved” if it’s really fine gravel that has been properly packed down by repeated driving on it, to the point where it starts looking shiny and sort of like glazed clay
Gravelment