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Re: [ST] Introduction..



Well down here in the south of the US, we tend to refer to it as roads like the english.  Guess it's just that yankee rebelliousness.  Course we also sometimes refer to it as asphalt, and the military I think sometime refer to it as tarmac, but that might be just on airfield runways.



At 11:18 PM 4/2/01 +0100, you wrote:
>In English 'paved' = covered in concrete slabs of uniform size usually
>about 2' by 2'6" ie the pavement where pedestrians walk (just to confuse
>the issue some 'pavements' are not paved though).  Roads are just 'roads'
>or 'carriageways', surfaced with a bituminous compound of some
>description, when they run out of man-made surface they tend to become
>'tracks'.  Hence the term 'road-rash' which is the damage caused to a
>motorcycle rider who meets the road surface when he is not wearing
>protective clothing :-(
>
>-- 
>Mike Bostock

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