Let's consolidate English and American

[JASR]

It's a motherfucking WALKway on the SIDE of the road, sidewalk makes perfect sense. Pavement could be the road itself, a patio, basketball court or a sidewalk. Think about it this way, you tell your friend you'll meet him on the pavement at 5:00pm. The poor sonofabitch thinks you mean the middle of the road and gets run over by a car and killed. Now you have a dead friend, how does that make you feel?

Lives will be saved by saying sidewalk.

What do you call the pedestrian friendly flat concrete down the middle of a road, with one lane of traffic going one way and the other lane of traffic going the other - a middlewalk?

 

[idahoblues]

Roads shall henceforth be known as Middledrives.

Appropriate for ‘Middle Earth’

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

What do you call the pedestrian friendly flat concrete down the middle of a road, with one lane of traffic going one way and the other lane of traffic going the other - a middlewalk?

A median actually.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Rout or Route ?

Never heard Chuck Berry sing Rout 66?

 

[Barcon]

Never heard Chuck Berry sing Rout 66?

I think he had a paper rout on route 66.

 

[Kinkybyname]

...just heard on American detective show

obstructiveness - FFS

 

[Vienna_70]

This will end a lot of confusion going forward and we will do it fair. Here's how it will work: You come up with something that you'd be willing to switch and then something that you want us to switch. We can debate a little but there shouldn't be a need because we're going to be mature and not take advantage of the system. I'll go first:

From now on we Americans will say "schedule" w/o the hard "K" sound.

In return you Brits will heretofore refer to the fruit that is used to make ketchup as "tomatoes" with the "a" being a long "a".

Another one, Americans will call flashlights "torches" (I always thought torch sounded better than flashlight anyway)

But you'll have to agree to casually refer to "pounds" as "bucks". Bucks sounds cooler and it is actually something. If you want to fight I think we can all agree on "clams" since it's cool to sound like a gangster from the 1930s.

NO.

NO.

NO.

NO.

NO.

 

[Vienna_70]

One thing that makes m smile.

We say progress and process, with a long 'o' sound, whereas Americans pronounce them with a short 'o'.

However, we say produce with a short 'o'', and yet Americans use a long 'o'.

It’s as if they are deliberately being contrary.

 

[mexico1970]

Another 50 years we will all be speaking Chinese any way :)

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

One thing that makes m smile.

We say progress and process, with a long 'o' sound, whereas Americans pronounce them with a short 'o'.

However, we say produce with a short 'o'', and yet Americans use a long 'o'.

It’s as if they are deliberately being contrary.

I'm glad that it makes the fictional Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service from the James Bond films smile ;) :)