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minus-square@dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink13•7 months agoWe call them pavements in the UK and I kinda think sidewalk is more descriptive. You walk on the side of the road.
minus-square@Bertuccio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink10•edit-27 months 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-square@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink4•7 months 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
minus-square@hangonasecond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•7 months agoDown under, it’s usually footpath which I think is even more descriptive
minus-square@Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•7 months agoFootpath makes it sound like it goes through the woods or a field or something.
minus-square@HydraulicMonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•7 months agoIt can do. But your feet do work outside of woods and fields too.
minus-square@BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoFootpath is also the more popular term in the UK IMO
We call them pavements in the UK and I kinda think sidewalk is more descriptive. You walk on the side of the road.
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
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.
It can do. But your feet do work outside of woods and fields too.
Footpath is also the more popular term in the UK IMO
They needed more information.