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Footpath or pavement, which is it?

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  • #52
    Tearin It Up
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    Its footpath, everyone else move to America please.


  • #53
    Capt'n Midnight
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    the_syco wrote: »
    It's a footpath if you're a pedestrian, the pavement if you're a cyclist, and the sidewalk if you're driving something with four wheels.
    in the US you park on the driveway and drive on the parkway , a shipment can go by car but a cargo goes on a ship.

    and Noah Webster deliberately changed spellings , even between different revisions of his dictionary


  • #54
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Tonyandthewhale wrote: »
    Why? Are you American or just weird?


    I was raised in Kildare by a pack of rogue Americans


  • #55
    moxin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭moxin


    Victor wrote: »
    Actually, it's a footway ...

    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1993/en/act/pub/0014/sec0002.html#sec2

    In an Irish engineering context 'pavement' refers to a hard surface of a road, e.g. concrete, asphalt or tarmac.

    Who do hell here will honestly call it a footway? Never knew our glorious footpaths were called footways till now!!


  • #56
    Tearin It Up
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    The rules of the road and the road safety authority of Ireland calls it a footpath.

    Under the pedestrian safety section on their website

    - Stop, look and listen.
    - If there is a footpath use it.
    - If there is no footpath, walk/run/jog on the right hand side of the road, facing oncoming traffic and keeping as close as possible to the side of the road.

    There's no mention of pavement or sidewalk.


  • #57
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Jays, people get so het up about americanisms "creeping in", that they are even ascribing the americanisation tag to words and phrases that aren't even American in origin. :confused: Pavement has been used in Ireland for years. You gave that wiki link, OP, but other sources, including the OED, give it as British English.


  • #58
    braddun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭braddun


    pavement is the street


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